Quotes About Getting Closure

#1. 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.

Phillip C. McGraw

#2. We are all angles, because everyone of us is judged by someone looking at us from a certain angle.

Jillian Kelly

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

Tim Morrison

#4. There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis, for getting at least some form of compensation and closure for the horrors visited upon their families.

Alex Shoumatoff

#5. It's much nicer to be known as Mr. Nice Guy than Mr. Nasty Guy. But you've got to have lines - and when you hit the line, that's the end of the story, nice guy or not.

Nicky Oppenheimer

#6. I'm a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

Paul Haggis

#7. No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#8. There is something that is unexplainable, which no amount of money can buy.

Preeti Shenoy

#9. The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

Reynolds Price

#10. I originally feared she might be dead, which felt like a sealed book that I would never be able to read. To have a birth mother die before getting any closure or answers seemed like it would be a cruel twist of fate.

Janet Louise Stephenson

#11. You are still a very loosome lass, Lael Click." "Loosome?" "Lovely. But you need tae regain your strength. I canna wed and bed so wee a fairy.

Laura Frantz

#12. People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. Love is the source and goal, faith is the slow process of getting there, and hope is the willingness to move forward without resolution and closure. And these are indeed, 'the three things that last' (1 Corinthians 13:13). People who have these gifts - faith, hope, and love - are indestructible.

Richard Rohr

#14. My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.

Robert Louis Stevenson