Quotes About Acceptance

there's all that time to eat drink and wait on death like everybody else.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare. I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.

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…

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.

225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works? in this room the hours of love still make shadows. when you left you took almost everything. I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be. what you were will not happen again. the tigers have found me and I do not care.

Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

è sempre un processo di lasciar perdere, in un modo o nell'altro.

I finally got dressed. I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.

I always felt it would pass. I listened to the charges against me knowing some of them to be true but certainly not important enough to become the target of violence, envy, vengeance. I thought it would surely pass.

There is really nothing you can do easily: live or die or accept fame or money or defeat, it's all hard.

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 straight on and to these I drink tonight.

The Gays have not only come out of the closet, but they have managed somehow to put us into it.

but perhaps it will help if we all realize that perhaps all of us have been pests at one time or another to somebody but we never knew it. shit, it's a horrible thought but most probably true and maybe it will help us bear up under the pest. basically, there is no 100 percent man. we are all run through with various madnesses and uglinesses that we ourselves are not aware of but that everybody else is aware of. how ya gonna keep us down on the farm?

every man is afraid of being queer. I get a little tired of it. maybe we should all become queers and relax.

as you are stuck in your poor body and in your poor life and it's all slowly dissolving, dissolving into nothing. like all the other bodies, like all the other lives, we all are being counted out, taken down by disease by just being rubbed up against the hard days, the harder years. there's no escaping this, we just have to take it, accept it— or like most— not think about it. at all.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

We are paper thin. We exist by chance between the percentages, temporarily. And this is the best and the worst part, the time factor. And there's nothing you can do about it. You can sit on top of a mountain and meditate for decades and nothing will change. You can change yourself to be acceptable, but maybe this is wrong. Perhaps we think too much. Feel more, think less.

Todos los domingos la gente venía y aspiraba aquel olor a meado y nadie decía nada. Quería hablarle al cura acerca de ello, pero no podía. Quizás fueran los cirios.

I need more balance, a more distanced perspective. I should accept what is. nightmares are a part of existence.

?utao sam, jer kad mrziš, ne možeš da moliš...

but now it's the waiting on death. it's not death that's the problem, it's the waiting.

having been born into this strange life we must accept the wasted gamble of our days and take some satisfaction in the plea sure of leaving it all behind. cry

Remember what the pros say, "If you've got to lose, lose in front.

You can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes.