Quotes About Acceptance

Clov: Do you believe in the life to come?Hamm: Mine was always like that.

What I'd like now is to speak of the things that are left, say my goodbyes, finish dying.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy—very unhappy—it is astonishing how easily they can be prevented from finding it out, or at any rate from attributing it to any other cause than their own sinfulness.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

A man at five and thirty should no more regret not having had a happier childhood than he should regret not having been born a prince of the blood.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

So it is with most of us: that which we observe to be taken as a matter of course by those around us, we take as a matter of course ourselves.

Nu mai avea nimic de pierdut: bani, rude, reputaÈ›ie, toate disp?ruser? pentru mult? vreme, dac? nu pentru totdeauna. Dar împreun? cu ele îÈ™i mai luase zborul înc? ceva. M? refer la teama de ceea ce ar fi putut s?-i fac? oamenii.

Cuando muera, lo haré con la plena y segura esperanza de que no habrá resurrección, pero esa muerte me aportará una paz absoluta.

He does not like this branch of his profession — indeed he hates it — but will not admit it to himself. The habit of not admitting things to himself has become a confirmed one with him. Nevertheless there haunts him an ill defined sense that life would be pleasanter if there were no sick sinners, or if they would at any rate face an eternity of torture with more indifference. He does not feel that he is in his element. The

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates

I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

gave unto the gods what was the gods"' and recognized and accepted as inevitable mortal

In the coming era, in short, the avoidance of major intercivilizational wars requires core states to refrain from intervening in conflicts in other civilizations. This is a truth which some states, particularly the United States, will undoubtedly find difficult to accept.

And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!