Quotes About Acceptance

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't - at least not in the moment.

I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

I should be very sorry if the Germans disapproved of me.

I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.

After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'

I've had a fantastic career playing great parts. In many ways, the colour of my skin has been an asset because I've been asked to play certain roles as a result. I don't apologise for playing them anymore than Robert de Niro is sorry for playing American-Italians.

No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into pieces. I felt sorry for my mom and wanted her to know everything was going to be all right. But then she said, 'I don't really care, Johnny, as long as I know that you are going to be happy.'

I don't mind dying if I have to, but I'm damned if I want to pay for the guarantee. I'm sorry.

Of course, I have privileges that others don't. But, you don't choose where you are born. If you want to hate me for that, I am sorry.

I'm sorry if you're partly black you're partly black. You're not fully black.

If people don't like the history, I'm sorry.

Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

I knew it was time to pack it in. I was in my 60s... I could still sing but I didn't want to get to that point where people feel sorry for me.

I can only say sorry for the past. I can't change it.

I feel sorry for those loveless people who have a problem with someone else's marital choices.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.