Quotes About Acceptance

It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.

Death is for other people.

Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.

It's no good going back over the past. It's the future one has to live for.

One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

One doesn't want to die young. Sometimes one has to.

Young people belong to their generation. We may think they're unwise in many of their doings, but we have to accept their decisions.

Here was a man who would never rail against fate but accept it and pass on to victory

I know—I know. To all of us, Mademoiselle, there comes a time when death is preferable to life. But it passes—sorrow passes and grief. You cannot believe that now, I know.

Everyone must die! That is so, is it not? If it comes quickly from the sky—bouff—like that, it is as well as any other way. One is alive for a time—yes, and then one is dead. That is what happens in this world.

Although everyone knows death comes in the end, you have this stupid mind which keeps on saying, 'But I won't die today . . .' right up to the moment of death!

It is love that has come — not as you imagined it, all cock-a-hoop with fine feathers, but sadly, with bleeding feet.

You have the clear brain. Yes, one cannot go back over the past. One must accept things as they are. And sometimes, Madame, that is all one can do—accept the consequences of one's past deeds.

That's all right then. But a lot of people do tell lies.' I accepted this undeniable statement of fact in silence.

Funerals are absolutely fatal for a man of your age.

Wwhat the hell? Weve all got to die sometime!

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

From what you read and hear nowadays, it seems that murder under certain aspects is slowly but surely being made acceptable to a large section of the community." She

wanted to know." "It's better not to know. It's better never to know. Better to leave things as they are. Not push and pry and poke." "You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth." Michael

You ought to give him at least–"' 'and here he mentioned a sum of several thousands of pounds. 'That's very high,' said the V.I.P. 'You've got to get a good man,' said Belcher. 'Mind you, if you offered it to me, I wouldn't take it on myself, at that price.' That was the operative sentence. A few days later Belcher was begged, on his own valuation, to accept such a sum,

Yes. Of course, you're very young… you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with it all—that you haven't got to carry the burden any longer. You'll feel that too, someday…

If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognise it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.

Jangan pikirkan lagi masa lalu! Berpalinglah pada masa yang akan datang! Apa yang telah terjadi, sudahlah. Kepahitan tidak akan mengubahnya." - Hercule Poirot, Death on the Nile, page 93

No. It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.