“When you finally let go of the person who you loved and who had trouble loving you just the same, it will hurt like a growing pain. The fact of the matter is, healing is supposed to hurt. It’s your heart’s way of telling you, 'We’re getting better. We’ll be alright.'”— Kelly Peacock, thoughtcatalog.com
“Like time suspended, a wound unmended-- you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I'll wonder why.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.”— Phil McGraw, amazon.com
“The strain of time tore us apart. It's not what we want, but it's where we are.”— Hayley Warner, open.spotify.com
“DO YOU REALLY WANT "CLOSURE"??? OR DO Y'ALL JUST WANT AN EXCUSE TO TALK TO THAT PERSON TO SEE IF THEY CAME UP WITH THE RIGHT WORDS FULL OF EMPTY PROMISES AND LIES TO CONVINCE YO ASS TO SETTLE????”— Aaliyah, twitter.com
“There’s no right or wrong way to grieve. Sometimes allowing yourself to indulge in memories of a loved one is the best way to get closure.”— Christina M. Kim, Dr. Robert Borden, Ukweli Roach, imdb.com
“Lawrence: I'm sorry for not being who you expected me to be. Who I expected me to be. Issa: When you were going through what you were going through, I just didn't know how to handle it.”— Issa Rae, Issa Dee, Issa Rae, imdb.com
“Closure is only a fairytale, a myth, a legend. The only true closure can come from within...this is a type of love story where the happy ending lies in not finding Prince Charming. Rather, it lies in the realization that he never existed at all.”— Shahida Arabi, amazon.com
“If you talk to more SURVIVORS and less sexist businessmen maybe you’ll understand what we want. We want safety. We want healing. We want accountability. We want closure. We want to live a life free from shame.”— Tarana Burke, twitter.com
“Some of us chose to say goodbye to people in our lives because they became toxic to our growth to our climb.”— Coleman Herbert, Richard, Clark Middleton, imdb.com
“You know, losing the parent you've had a terrible relationship with can be harder than losing someone that you had a good one with, especially if you haven't made an effort toward closure.”— Annie Weisman, Sarah Lane, Michelle Monaghan, imdb.com
“Closure. That's probably the most unrealistic word in the English vocabulary. It's up there with heartbreak, pain, loss, and abandonment, all these things that you're supposed to get over and mend and heal but really, do you ever get over those moments?””— Katie Kacvinsky, amazon.com
“But now she was different. Now she was happy with herself, her life, and she didn’t think of companionship in terms of convenience - she thought of it in terms of who she wanted to share her life with. She realized companionship was not something you should crave because you’re scared of being lonel…”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“We demand closure as though our lives were put together as neatly as novels, but the fact of the matter is they’re not. In real life, relationships are messy and poorly written, ending too early or too late, and sometimes in the middle of a sentence.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“Sometimes it’s better to just let things be, let people go, don’t fight for closure, don’t ask for explanations, don’t chase answers and don’t expect people to understand where you’re coming from.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“People leave without an explanation -- and it hurts like hell. It's wildly confusing. But, the only thing you can really do is take everything you learned from the situation, grow from it, and leave the rest where it belongs, in the past.”— Andrea Davis, instagram.com
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. Slowly, I began to realize that I could not go back and force things to…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”— Neil Gaiman, goodreads.com