Quotes About Acceptance

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.—Kingsley Amis

My father had died, and very swiftly too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was seventy-nine. I am sixty-one. In whatever kind of 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and now have succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not? The

these are the rewards of maturity, to be enjoyed only as we decline. We

all children are born into a losing struggle with death

Atheists have the intellectual courage to accept reality for what it is: wonderfully and shockingly explicable. As an atheist, you have the moral courage to live to the full the only life you're ever going to get: to fully inhabit reality, rejoice in it, and do your best finally to leave it better than you found

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage rather than resignation. In a sense, with the back to the wall and no exit but death or acceptance, the options narrow to one.

But George is getting old. Won't it very soon be too late? Never use those words to George. He won't listen. He daren't listen. Damn the future. Let Kenny and the kids have it. Let Charley keep the past. George clings only to Now. It is Now that he must find another Jim. Now that he must love. Now that he must live....

Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of?It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed." Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

?udno je, ali se ne sje?am da sam se uopšte plašio, prihva?ao sam to. ?inilo mi se sasvim prirodno da svi treba da umremo. To je vjerovatno bio opšti mentalitet ratnog vremena.

It's gone! he repeats, almost ecstatically. That's because you let it go, Jacob tells him.

I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

The best we can do is take the history we have and deal with it.

The past anchors us, cousin. It gives us a place to stand. You can't hide from it because it hurts. That pain tells you who you are. It demands recognition.

Last time I really got to know myself it turned out there was a whole gang of bitches in there to deal with. I felt like the receptionist at a rehab center. They all had nice tits though, I gotta say.

Only by being prepared for your death can you ever truly live.

So I am death Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast. This is death toast sweety.

You want me and I want you. right? Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right.

Unless you can change the past, you're wasting the present on this guilt

Love them all, said Renoir. That is the secret, young man. Love them all. The painter let go of his arm and shrugged. Then, even if your paintings are shit, you will have loved them all.

Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

Is it so hard for you to give up what you never had?

Why understand when you can believe?