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.

the only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.

All suffering has an end.

"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.

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.

I'm not leaving you. Not going it alone. Not looking at the memory of you everytime I close my eyes.

Carefully they replaced the soil and covered the entire grave with uprooted grass. Neither one had spoken a word.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!

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.

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

There's a little mourning process when you leave a show.

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.