--- title: "5 Closing Quotes By Paulo Coelho" description: "5 Closing quotes by Paulo Coelho. Plus more from Paulo Coelho and more Closing sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/paulo-coelho-10_closing_it-is-always-important-to-know-when-some_154316.jpg" --- > [It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesnt matter what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/it-is-always-important-to-know-when-something-has-reached-its-end/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/paulo-coelho-10_closing_it-is-always-important-to-know-when-some_154316.jpg) > [Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/closing-cycles-not-because-of-pride-incapacity-or-arrogance-but/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f7/paulo-coelho-10_arrogance_closing-cycles-not-because-of-pride-inca_563405.jpg) > [“Closing The Cycle One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/closing-the-cycle-one-always-has-to-know-when-a-stage-comes-to-an-end/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e31/paulo-coelho-10_accepting-love_closing-the-cycle-one-always-has-to-know_1493040.jpg) > [“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/it-is-always-important-to-know-when-something-has-reached-its-end-2/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b37/paulo-coelho-10_life_it-is-always-important-to-know-when-some_1967466.jpg) > [One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/one-always-has-to-know-when-a-stage-comes-to-an-end-if-we-insist-on-2/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dca/paulo-coelho-10_chapters_one-always-has-to-know-when-a-stage-come_2420938.jpg) ## More by Paulo Coelho > [I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/i-have-inside-me-the-winds-the-deserts-the-oceans-the-stars-and/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/love-will-never-separate-a-man-from-his-personal-legend/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-world-has-a-soul-and-whoever-understands-that-soul-can-also/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/you-dont-choose-your-life-it-chooses-you-theres-no-point-asking-why/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/to-love-is-to-be-in-communion-with-the-other-and-to-discover-in-that/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/it-is-not-enough-to-dream-of-the-impossible-love-it-is-necessary-to/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/eat-when-it-is-time-to-eat-and-walk-when-it-is-time-to-walk/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/people-are-reading-more-and-writing-more-because-of-the-internet-so/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/joy-is-like-sex-it-begins-and-ends-i-want-pleasure-i-want-to-be/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [“Trudi se da zivis, sjecanja su za starije ljude.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/trudi-se-da-zivis-sjecanja-su-za-starije-ljude/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/i-ve-always-been-a-very-restless-person-i-work-hard-spend-too-much/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/when-someone-leaves-it-s-because-someone-else-is-about-to-arrive/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-past-and-the-future-become-unimportant-there-is-only-that-moment/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/she-didn-t-need-to-understand-the-meaning-of-life-it-was-enough-to/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [“The simpler the pose, the better; the more sober, the more beautiful.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-simpler-the-pose-the-better-the-more-sober-the-more-beautiful/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/closing/paulo-coelho/#itemlist", "name": "5 Closing Quotes By Paulo Coelho", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesnt matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paulo Coelho" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/it-is-always-important-to-know-when-something-has-reached-its-end/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/paulo-coelho-10_closing_it-is-always-important-to-know-when-some_154316.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/paulo-coelho-10_closing_it-is-always-important-to-know-when-some_154316.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/paulo-coelho-10_closing_it-is-always-important-to-know-when-some_154316.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors…” — Paulo Coelho", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paulo Coelho" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/closing-cycles-not-because-of-pride-incapacity-or-arrogance-but/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f7/paulo-coelho-10_arrogance_closing-cycles-not-because-of-pride-inca_563405.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f7/paulo-coelho-10_arrogance_closing-cycles-not-because-of-pride-inca_563405.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f7/paulo-coelho-10_arrogance_closing-cycles-not-because-of-pride-inca_563405.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your…” — Paulo Coelho", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Closing The Cycle One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters - whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished. Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents' house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden? You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill. None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we cannot for ever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back. Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts - and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place. Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else. Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the \"ideal moment.\" Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need. This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important. Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paulo Coelho" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/closing-the-cycle-one-always-has-to-know-when-a-stage-comes-to-an-end/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e31/paulo-coelho-10_accepting-love_closing-the-cycle-one-always-has-to-know_1493040.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e31/paulo-coelho-10_accepting-love_closing-the-cycle-one-always-has-to-know_1493040.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e31/paulo-coelho-10_accepting-love_closing-the-cycle-one-always-has-to-know_1493040.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Closing The Cycle One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than…” — Paulo Coelho", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 be as they once were: those two years, which up until then had seemed an endless inferno, were now beginning to show me their true meaning.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paulo Coelho" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/it-is-always-important-to-know-when-something-has-reached-its-end-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b37/paulo-coelho-10_life_it-is-always-important-to-know-when-some_1967466.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b37/paulo-coelho-10_life_it-is-always-important-to-know-when-some_1967466.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b37/paulo-coelho-10_life_it-is-always-important-to-know-when-some_1967466.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors…” — Paulo Coelho", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paulo Coelho" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/one-always-has-to-know-when-a-stage-comes-to-an-end-if-we-insist-on-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dca/paulo-coelho-10_chapters_one-always-has-to-know-when-a-stage-come_2420938.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dca/paulo-coelho-10_chapters_one-always-has-to-know-when-a-stage-come_2420938.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dca/paulo-coelho-10_chapters_one-always-has-to-know-when-a-stage-come_2420938.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time…” — Paulo Coelho", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/closing/paulo-coelho/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/closing/paulo-coelho/", "name": "Closing Quotes by Paulo Coelho", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/closing/paulo-coelho/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/add/paulo-coelho-10_closing_it-is-always-important-to-know-when-some_154316.jpg" }, "description": "5 Closing quotes by Paulo Coelho. Plus more from Paulo Coelho and more Closing sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/closing/paulo-coelho/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/closing/paulo-coelho/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Closing", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/closing/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Paulo Coelho", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/closing/paulo-coelho/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```