Closure Quotes

• With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

  Garth Ennis

  Giving, Stories, Pacing

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• We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.

  Mitch Albom

  Giving, Comforting, Way

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• We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.

  David Deida

  Emotional, Action, Moments

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• Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure -- put a period to -- those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing... and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Simple, Exclamation Points, Forever

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• Avoiding problems doesn't make them go away - you think it does, but it really doesn't. They're just postponed. Those problems just stay inside your subconscious and brew until your body gets to a point where it's had enough and decides to release some of the stress itself. That's what an anxiety attack is! It happens when you don't know how to vent your frustration, fears, stress, sadness, madness, whatever it is that bothers you, the things you should be confronting and getting closure with. If you don't confront these things and deal with them, your body does it for you.

  Sully Erna

  Stress, Sadness, Thinking

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• Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Stupid, Sadness, Receiving

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• I know what it feels like to be bruised; I know what it feels like to carry things around with you that never totally heal. There's closure and then there's stuff that's kind of like, Well, I guess it's going to be in the minivan forever. And you carry it with you and you continue on your journey with your minivan full of stuff, which I think most of us do.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Journey, Thinking, Forever

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.

  Richard Rohr

  Levels, Satisfaction, Patient

  "Preparing for Christmas" by Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course there may be courtesies And closures and laws to abide, But the zeal with which you play Relies on where YOU draw the line

  Jason Mraz

  Law, Play, Perfect

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• I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, People, Satisfaction

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• Shift often from openness to closure.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Finishing, Openness

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• Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Doors, Ready

  Jonathan Maberry (2011). “Rot and Ruin”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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• And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.

  Terence McKenna

  Opposites, Feet, Space

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• The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.

  Ann Brashares

  Light, Circles, Understanding

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.429, Delacorte Press

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• Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

  Martin Amis

  Venus, Littles, Get Over

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• We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Jobs, Adventure, College

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• I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Real, Novel

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• I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

  Larry David

  Heart, People, Not Interested

  Interview with Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.

  David Deida

  Lying, Heart, Suffering

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.

  James Badge Dale

  Regret, Opportunity, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a sound. Non-being. You can't keep it up, of course. the world rushes in soon enough. What shuts you up is, I think, the sight you've had of perfection: why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences? It feels like a betrayal of what you've been through. But it fades; you accept that certain compromises, closures, are required if you're to continue.

  Salman Rushdie

  Betrayal, Thinking, Sight

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• Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

  Stephen Grosz

  Grief, False Hope

  Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.210, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Create a need for closure.

  Chip Heath

  Needs

  Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.81, Random House

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• I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Moving, Thinking, Years

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• My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But many religious folks insist on answers that are always true. We love closure, resolution and clarity, while thinking that we are people of 'faith'! How strange that the very word 'faith' has come to mean its exact opposite.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Mean, Dark

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