Quotes About Acceptance

Moy thought, I shall make no more masks, something is over forever. Anyway, she thought, this time next year I shall probably be dead.

But now, when things had happened which were too appalling to think about, when his romantic love was a corpse and his cleverness a ghost, he knew where it was he wanted to lay his head.

Let him die peacefully in his sleep and not know. Only not tonight, not tonight.

The past buries the past and must end in silence, but it can be a conscious silence that rests open-eyed.

Settle down! she thought. Yes, settle down into dreariness and quietness and forgetfulness and boredom.

I know time doesn't heal. That's the silliest idea of all.

Well Joe, the truth is that you're not a bad guy, but you have been a bit mysogynistic and homophobic. So your punishment is to make you walk the earth as a homosexual ghost buggering your old mates and aquaitances.

Quizá me haya acostumbrado tanto a las mentiras, que la verdad me suena indecentemente falsa. Pero bueno.

But I really thought that me and her had something. Then I thought about how a lot of people, black and white don't like the idea of a white geezer and a black bird getting it on. One day it won't matter a fuck, we'll all be coffee-coloured with a tint of yellow. Till then we got a load of grief tae get through.

Some people spend years in counselling trying to cope with being fucked up. I just move on. The fucked-upness always goes. The conventional wisdom is that you're running away, you should learn to cope with being fucked-up. I don't hold with that. Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

Does it? Get easier, I mean, he asks urgently. The cop shakes his heid. — Does it fuck; it gets bleedin worse. All that happens is that the expectations you have of life fall. You just get used to all the shit. Renton

If only he loved himself as much as he loved the rest of the world.

No tears come, and it would be pointless, like trying to empty a reservoir of grief by drip feed. I'm being daft.

Spud gives Renton the kind of smile that would make old wifies in the street want to adopt him like a stray cat.

Now most people would put this doon tae experience, ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate.

The problem is that Tom refuses tae accept ma view that society cannae be changed tae make it significantly better, or that ah cannae change tae accommodate it. Such a state ay affairs induces depression on ma part, aw the anger gets turned in. That's what depression is, they say. However, depression also results in demotivation. A void grows within ye. Junk fills the void, and also helps us tae satisfy ma need tae destroy masel, the anger turned in bit again.

One day this magnificent charge will go, like vision, hearing, continence, and I hope it's the very last of them to succumb.

Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.

We are all are cripples in some way. [Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

Very well, Vincent, said Zola with a smile, you have been nominated for the cult of ugliness. Do you accept the nomination? Alas, said Vincent, I'm afraid I was born into it.

?tiin?a este arta de a crea iluzii acceptabile.

Nimeni nu poate sc?pa de suferin??, cel mai bun lucru pe care îl putem face e s? nu suferim orbeÈ™te.

Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose partique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.