Quotes About Acceptance

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

I will fight to the death for one's right to be able to practice in their temple, their mosque, or in their church, even if they have a different belief than I do.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.

Death is the perfect knowing.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

I'm going to die whatever you do, but I'm not afraid.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

Why should I be worried about death?

What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.