Closure Quote by Stephen Grosz Download Open image “Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.” — Stephen Grosz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Closure False hope Grief Hope
The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality,… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
For survivors, the word closure often connotes that the bereaved are underachievers who flunked a grief course. — Earl A Grollman Copy Share Image
You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“...our loves ones truly are ever-present. We may bury their bodies or scatter their ashes, but their spirits are boundless and do not accompany… — April Slaughter Copy Share Image
We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we become accustomed to our grief and, as it becomes increasingly familiar, increasingly part of the emotional landscape, it becomes a dullness. But… — David Rieff Copy Share Image
If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life. — John Claypool Copy Share Image
It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten. — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“my breakdown was like a furnace and what was burned away was any belief in my own feelings” — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“And being dirty and broken – how could he love, or be loved? Going back AS A GIFT to my father for his eightieth… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“As he spoke, I had the mental image of a small boy switching on the nightlight, not because he wants to be able to… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.” — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“In trying so hard to be different from our parents, we're actually doing much the same thing -- doling out empty praise the way… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“i knew tht we all have the capacity to act in self-destructive ways, nevertheless i had a kind of faith that the desire to… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“...our loves ones truly are ever-present. We may bury their bodies or scatter their ashes, but their spirits are boundless and do not accompany… — April Slaughter Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“i tried to find it but there was no answer at the end of the last conversation - closure” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Ghosting's a horrible thing, isn't it? It doesn't feel good, it feels like a rejection. And what's more, it feels like a rejection where… — Matthew Hussey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people need closure… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
“If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or not. Maybe, it is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You deny it.… — Helen Merrill Copy Share Image
'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
Love is beauty, consciousness is trust. One of the deepest feminine pleasures is when a man stands full, present, and unreactive in the midst… — David Deida Copy Share Image
I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
The PURPOSE of the DATA INTEGRITY BOARD review meeting is NOT for the purpose of reviewing the INTEGRITY of the paperwork because that has… — Jack Smith Copy Share Image
