Quotes About Acceptance

For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, is full of misery

That will come when it comes; we must deal with all that lies before us. The future rests with the ones who tend the future.

And if to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

But when a god sends harm, no man can sidestep it, no matter how strong he may be.

You'll never find a man on Earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate.

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.

Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

Comply, and fear not, for my load of woe Is incommunicable to all but me.

So here I am, against my will and yours too, well I know-- no one wants the man who brings bad news.

Invited, not inflicted; of all wounds, those that seem willful are the worst to bear.

CREON: Can't you see? If a man could wail his own dirge before he dies, he'd never finish.

I well believe it, to unwilling ears; None love the messenger who brings bad news

Time is the great healer, you will see.

How terrible—to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees! I knew it well, but I put it from my mind, else I never would have come.

What will come will come. Even if I shroud it all in silence.

And a crowd of other horrors you'd never dream will level you with yourself and all your children.

O god— all come true, all burst to light! O light—now let me look my last on you!

Acceptance—that is the great lesson suffering teaches

Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day, count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.

Acceptance—that is the great lesson suffering teaches, suffering and the long years . . .

Mortal man must always look to his ending. And none can be called happy until that day when he carries his happiness down to the grave in peace. - Sophocles

Look through all humanity: you'll never find a man on earth, if a god leads him on, who can escape his fate.

Enter OEDIPUS, blinded, led by a boy.