Quotes about Closure
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.
- Henry Ward Beecher
the only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.
- Anonymous
All suffering has an end.
- Kay Arthur
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.
- John Lennon
I'm not leaving you. Not going it alone. Not looking at the memory of you everytime I close my eyes.
- Charles Martin
Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass. Neither one had spoken a word.
- Toni Morrison
Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!
- Anonymous
We need to be honest with ourselves. We need a place where we can sit down, reflect, and mourn. However, we must be careful not to mourn over the past longer than necessary. After the funeral, there is always a burial. The burial separates the survivor from the deceased, and it is as far as we can go. So you must come to a place of separation and decide to live on.
- Bishop TD Jakes
My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.
- Drew Barrymore
There's a little mourning process when you leave a show.
- Tony Hale
For my own part, I think that Johnston's tactics were right. Anything that could have prolonged the war a year beyond the time that it did finally close, would probably have exhausted the North to such an extent that they might then have abandoned the contest and agreed to a separation.
- Ulysses S. Grant