123 Quotes About Closure

Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

I turned to face Audrey, and everything I loved was right there in her eyes, the memories tangible: the schooldays and sleepovers, the cheap bottles of wine and sappy chick flicks. She was there for my mother’s drunken relapses, there to hold me until I fell asleep the first time the ex from Seattle hit me. It was all there, and my God, each memory was suddenly sacred and the sun rose and set upon it.

If you’re hurt, get a closure asap. Once pus collects in the wound, scratching it gives more pleasure than healing it.

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost you much to do it. I’d rather apologize for something I didn’t really care about, and leave someone on Earth wishing me well, than to be stubborn and have that someone hoping that some alien would slurp out my brains. Call it karmic insurance.

The only cure here was death. They were both gone out of my life.

There will be a sea of tears,You'll gasp for your breath at times,You'll drag your heavy heartAnd drown your soul in the sea.But sooner or later,The sea will dry up,There won't be any savior shipBut you'll learn to embraceThe wet sand revealed.

It wasn’t closure, really. But I’d said the right things. I’d hit on some truths. Maybe some things didn’t get closure. Maybe some things weren’t really worth it, or didn’t really need it, and after a while the unimportance would become obvious.

Closure is an American lie used to justify revenge. Healing is getting used to the pain, learning to be damaged.

The man himself lay in the bed.For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him.