Quotes About Acceptance

I hope that death contains less than this.

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

there's nothing to discuss there's nothing to remember there's nothing to forget it's sad and it's not sad seems the most sensible thing a person can do is sit with drink in hand as the walls wave their goodbye smiles one comes through it all with a certain amount of efficiency and bravery then leaves some accept the possibility of God to help them get through others take it staight on and to these I drink tonight.

the worst thing, he told me, is bitterness, people end up so bitter.

I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

as she drove me through the hills everything screamed inside of me, and I kept saying as we drove along (to myself, of course) fucker, it will pass, everything passes, it's all a joke a joke on you

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

this time has finished me.

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.

sometimes there's nothing to say about death.

You can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

what you were will not happen again. the tigers have found me and I do not care.

lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub

my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here

I just let it roll. Like a hot turd down a hill.

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it