Quotes About Closure

You can't go back to something once it's dead.

I'm not a process person. I like goals and closure, the arrival instead of the journey itself.

Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?

The door closed. So quiet it amounted to nothing but a snap of air, and that was the strangeness of it, how a small sound like that could fall across the whole world.

but I've made my peace with our separation.

I couldn't let you believe we'd keep going, when we'd already lasted too long.

Les had neither the time nor the appropriate role model from which to learn about the giving and receiving of love. He grew up without nourishment of his emotional life, so he simply turned off his emotions. Unfortunately, he found that he couldn't turn them back on again, even when he wanted to

It's extremely frustrating when you've worked hard to get to the point of confrontation, but one or both of your parents are dead.

She hesitated before opening the envelope, telling herself there was nothing he could say that would change anything. But she opened it anyway and read the note. I'm not very good at this. I'm sorry.

No. It's just that I don't want to be with you." He hesitated. "I'm not sure I ever loved you.

Up to a point, the weight and seriousness of such photographs survive better in a book, where one can look privately, linger over the pictures, without talking. Still, at some moment the book will be closed. The strong emotion will become a transient one.

Questions swelled inside her, tangling with questions that would never be answered. The trouble with being angry with a dead person, she reflected, was that you could never sit down with her, talk things out, get an explanation, make amends.

I felt the warm brush of his fingers pushing the key into mine all the way to my heart. I focused on the key because if I looked up, I'd see what he was feeling. Worse, he'd see what I was feeling -- in a minute what I was feeling was going to be spilling out of me, and it didn't make any sense. It had been over long ago; we had just finally got around to saying good-bye, that was all.

Were those really going to be the final words of fiction I wrote?

Wrap parties can be really sad, actually, disorienting.

the way we ended things was not uncommon for kids like us. She said we'd lost enough in our short lives to want to cauterize our wounds before they happened. We burned our connection closed before we felt the holes.

But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.

Ele começou a reconhecer que, mais difícil do que viver, é saber encerrar harmoniosamente a vida, sem azedumes nem resmungos, em paz com o mundo que ficaria para trás

Forgiveness is not about letting someone off the hook. It's about freeing yourself from the pain and anger of the past.

Have a nice remainder of the rest of your life.

Death is just the last scene of the last act.

Esto ya se acabó o se está acabando; lo único que puede hacerse es elegir que se acabe de una manera o de otra.

At any moment we'd look each other in the eye and understand there was no longer any solution. That's what I was expecting: a blow, painless and sharp. Then, as difficult as the moment might be, we'd each start over again on our own. And it would all, undoubtedly, be best for both of us.

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.