Quotes About Acceptance

Death is an inevitability, isn't it? You become more aware of that when you get to my age. I don't worry about it. I'm ready for it. When I go, I want to go doing what I do best. If I died tomorrow, I couldn't complain. It's been good.

A fourteen-year-old boy should never have to ask the questions Who is my mother? and Who are my family? These were not easy questions to formulate in the mind or the mouth because the question comes with others . . . What did I do to deserve this?

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else, it can make you want to scream. But somewhere in the world there is a place for all of us, whether you are an electric form of decoration, peppermint-scented sweet, a source of timber, or a potato pancake.

It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do with what does or does not happen.

Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.

You cannot wait for an untroubled world to have an untroubled moment. The terrible phone call, the rainstorm, the sinister knock on the door—they will all come. Soon enough arrive the treacherous villain and the unfair trial and the smoke and the flames of the suspicious fires to burn everything away. In the meantime, it is best to grab what wonderful moments you find lying around.

I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.

So you're reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It's like having feet. It's nothing to brag about.

Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

Some people think destiny is something you cannot escape, such as death or a curdled cheesecake, both of which always turn up sooner or later.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

Everybody will die, of course, sooner or later. Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die, and there might be a person who lives on your block, right now, who is not looking both ways before he crosses the street and who will die in just in a few seconds, all because of a bus. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know...

Los peores sitios del mundo se pueden soportar si la gente que allí habita es interesante y amable.

But the children knew, as I?m sure you know, that the worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.

But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.