Closure Quotes

91 quotes by 80 authors

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… — David Deida
In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who… — Mark Jason Dominus
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. — Michael Ondaatje
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'. — Larry Wall
There's never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life. — Paul Pearsall
A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense… — Dan Chaon
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… — James Badge Dale
I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I… — Lisa Gardner
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… — Jim Cantalupo
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course. — Earl A Grollman
Shift often from openness to closure. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that… — Gene Wolfe
Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the… — Robert Genn
Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. — Stephen Grosz
I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure. — Larry David
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a… — Steve Earle
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… — Khaled Hosseini
If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out. — Gus Van Sant
Producing is the hardest of the three because there is almost no closure. Every time you solve a problem, another one pops up. Directing is… — Henry Winkler
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… — Carolyn Heilbrun

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