Welcome to our curated collection of closing quotes, where we encapsulate the essence of endings, farewells, and conclusions in words that resonate deeply. Whether you’re seeking inspiration for a heartfelt goodbye, adding a poignant touch to the conclusion of a speech, or simply reflecting on the bittersweet nature of endings, you’ll find a treasure trove of wisdom and insight here.
Closing moments hold a unique power, marking the culmination of experiences and the beginning of new chapters. They evoke a myriad of emotions from nostalgia and reflection to anticipation and hope. Through the timeless words of poets, authors, thinkers, and leaders, we explore the art of bidding farewell, the beauty of wrapping up narratives, and the significance of embracing change. As you delve into these quotes, may you find solace, inspiration, and perhaps even a newfound perspective on the art of closure.
Below, you’ll find a selection of poignant closing quotes on various themes. Feel free to use them as the finishing touch to your own endeavors, whether it be in writing, speaking, or simply as a source of contemplation. Allow these words to accompany you as you navigate the endings and beginnings that shape the tapestry of your life.
I’m a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they’re not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I’ve been there too long. Greg Kinnear
We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards. Ma Jun
Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. Ted Kulongoski
Black people in America, people from the struggle, immigrants, it’s no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create – in one generation – closing the gap. That’s why we so Doomsday about getting to the check: ’cause it’s life or death for real. Nipsey Hussle
The reality is when you open a door, there is no sense in closing it – so I would never say, ‘I’ll never act again.’ But it’s definitely not my priority. Evangeline Lilly
I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint. Alonzo Mourning
The opportunity to be a part of the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio is a huge milestone in my career, and it will be the biggest performance of my life. Kygo
The next five months are grim ones. I always feel sorry to have the summertime change, with the dark evenings closing in mid-afternoon, and will try to lay in some physical comforts these months – the best insurance against gloominess for me. Sylvia Plath
These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements. Kevin Rudd
There is no future for me as a closing pitcher. Danny McBride
Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I’ll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that’s never-ending. Chris Ofili
Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us. Geddy Lee
I have a natural instinct to feel guilty and that I’ve let people down. I’ve apologized in more songs than ‘Back to the Shack.’ Going back to our second record, the closing lines are ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.’ It’s definitely part of my personality. Rivers Cuomo
I’m not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I’ll continue to work with the band. If not, we’ll all go our separate ways again. Gareth Gates
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or – somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. Kenneth Grahame
Our breath gets shallow and ineffective when we are in a stressed state. I advocate stopping whatever you’re doing for a couple of minutes five times a day, closing your eyes and taking deep breaths. Lindsay Wagner
It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer. Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another. Jeremy Stoppelman
In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records – which was a major step in getting costs out of the system. Jon Huntsman, Jr.
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in. Bruce Springsteen
The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we’re closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits. Jeremy Grantham
I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don’t go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That’s what gives me peace. A. R. Rahman
We’d all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn’t any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don’t worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore. Louise Mensch
Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero. Andrew Ross Sorkin
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we’re a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we’re practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they’re talking about. Margaret Spellings
I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy’s sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, ‘The Artist is Present’, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress. Joan Smalls
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. Cesare Pavese
La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy’s cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image. Closing it would send a message to the rest of the world that Italy doesn’t care. Diego Della Valle
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. Carl Sandburg
Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation’s national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals – people good and bad – as a symbol of America’s abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world. Dianne Feinstein
The art world is molting – some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back. Jerry Saltz
When you’re a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down. Michael Owen
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall. Carl Stokes
You’re the only one who’s closing your eyes at night. There’s no one else who can do it for you. James Caan
I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare. Donald Trump
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 the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you’re moving it to another place in the marketplace. Jim Cantalupo
My dad constantly tells me I should calm down, but I feel so sad when I see places I’ve known since I was a child closing. I burst out crying when a local pharmacy closed the other day; it’s just going to become a shop that nobody has much of a need for. But I am trying to move with the times. Zawe Ashton
Women’s health is not a niche issue – it impacts everyone in some way. That is why a collective effort to improve awareness and understanding of menstrual hygiene is key to closing the gender health gap. Shabana Azmi
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. Alexander Graham Bell
I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic. Jewel
The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing. Jan Chipchase
I remember the ’70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers’ strike, all wrapped up in it… They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches. Noel Gallagher
Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the ’84 Olympics. Cuba Gooding, Jr.
I’m bad on Valentine’s Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o’clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I’m in Toys’R’Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. Jamie Foxx
People often cover their mouths when lying. A hand on the mouth or even a touch of the lips shows you that they are lying because this unconscious body language represents a closing off of communication. Travis Bradberry
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, ‘infidels’, for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world. Salman Rushdie
What is beauty, anyway? It’s more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn’t stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what’s closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it’s pretty, but it probably isn’t beauty. Alan Alda
Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn’t like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do. Lee Trevino
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. Lyndon B. Johnson
The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn’t that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you’ve got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text. Carlo Ratti
The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don’t often command the votes needed to win in November. Eliot Spitzer
I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don’t see work as closing down as an older woman. Lindsay Duncan
President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won’t admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem. Mahmoud Abbas
I’ve noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation – as if this one e-mail doesn’t represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth. Susan Orlean
I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it’s a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life – I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don’t know what’s going to happen. Daniel Radcliffe
Ah, mastery… what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills… and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. Gail Sheehy
There are certain things you learn to do as a parent – using every single part of your body because you’re multitasking all the time. You’re holding the baby and you’re closing the door with your left foot. Amy Ryan
Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many. Lady Gaga
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap. Margaret Spellings
We go to the opening arguments or the closing arguments of a case, and we’d see which actor got the big one. I had a seven-page one once which just about killed me, and I thought, ‘Oh, I’m going to get fired, that’s it, I can’t do it.’ It was like a one-act play, and I had a few weeks to learn it, luckily. But it’s terrifying. Kelli Williams
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. Alan Bennett
I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I’ll say to myself: ‘I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn’t be there.’ Charlize Theron
In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends. Major Taylor
The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes. Bob Beauprez
I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap. Kevin Rudd
Businesses closing doors comes with employee layoffs and individuals unable to pay their bills, put food on the table or provide for their loved ones. Young Kim
Latecomers to industrial development have had to catch up by finding ways of closing the gap. Lee Kuan Yew
Let’s make sure that we don’t close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women’s confronting that issue away. Wendy Davis
I’m fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need. Kirsten Gillibrand
Being around my local community, seeing how many pubs are closing down there, it hurts me. Jimmy Bullard
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. Winston Churchill
We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse. Karen Mills
I love the way Monteverdi’s opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous. Charles Hazlewood
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg. Toby Keith
The Beach Boys set the bar for pop sunshine more than 40 years ago, and the genre hasn’t changed that much since. Surfer Blood’s ‘Floating Vibes’ rounds the usual bases with an upbeat attitude, and the string swells closing the track are a must, but the band manages to infuse all those old sounds with fresh energy. Anthony Fantano
We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons. Gale Sayers
There’s only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That’s when you want to be noticed, because it’s very easy to get forgotten in an ER. Bill Murray
There’s nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It’s a nest where I go to heal. Tim Gunn
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut. Paddy Ashdown
From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy. Stacey Abrams
I wonder what would have happened if automation and computers had existed when ‘Oklahoma!’ was having its out-of-town try-out, and three days before closing in Boston, when it was still called ‘Away We Go,’ they added a new song called ‘Oklahoma!’ I don’t think that could happen today. It’s almost impossible to change musicals on the go now. Andrew Lloyd Webber
I don’t say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account. Barton Gellman
Sometimes there’s a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometimes you have to, like when you’re in a studio and you’re doing fashion shooting, but I don’t even do it then. Bruce Weber
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort – the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing – the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. Andy Rooney
In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him. Zach Wamp
I think it’s terribly important to watch TV. I think there’s a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you’re just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that’s going on! J. G. Ballard
Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government – and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners. Ruben Hinojosa
I think there’s something unromantic about marriage. You’re closing yourself off. Hugh Grant
If you’ve tried everything possible to get an outcome, and it just hasn’t worked out as planned, stop trying so hard. Relax. Maybe the timing’s not right. Maybe it wasn’t in your best interests. Maybe while one door seems to be closing, another is opening. Robin S. Sharma
The fact is that our kids aren’t reading books – or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it’s their job, and not the school’s job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun. James Patterson
Although I long to get away from the typewriter, if I think I can produce a better opening or a better closing to a chapter, I’ll change and change round again until I’m satisfied. Catherine Gaskin
Jack Nicklaus liked to curve the ball by opening or closing the clubface at address. I never felt I was good enough to do it his way. I didn’t like changing my swing path, either, which some guys do. There’s only one really reliable way to curve the ball: Change your hand position at address. Lee Trevino
The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws. J. D. Hayworth
Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn’t care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that’s what it took to win. Dee Dee Myers
Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts – and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance – and that’s tough when interest rates are insanely high – there’s a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score. Suze Orman
There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps. Matthew McConaughey
One of the problems that we are confronted with is, when we decide to buy or build a home, we don’t get a clear picture of what closing costs will be of that home. Alphonso Jackson
