Quotes about Closure

In both our personal and professional lives, there are times when reality dictates that we must stand up and 'end' something. Either its time has passed, its season is over, or worse, continuing it would be destructive in some way.

The summer is put away folded up in the drawer with other summers.

So that was the end of that marriage.

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

It was appointed that the book should shut with a spring, for ever and for ever, when I had read but a page.

Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed

You will forgive because you love yourself so much that you don't want to keep hurting yourself for whatever happened. Whatever happened is done and cannot be changed. And we have to accept that and keep going with our life. — Don Miguel Ruiz

I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesnt mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

You can't tell a dead man you're sorry.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.