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Quotes About Acceptance

Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.
~ Alain de Botton
Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!
~ George Carlin
Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
~ Seneca the Younger
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
~ Unknown
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
~ Unknown
We live on the cusp of death Thinking it won't be us
~ Macklemore
It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.
~ Terry Pratchett
Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.
~ Dana Gould
You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
~ Eric Roth
It is rather interesting how you get used to death.
~ George S. Patton
Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.
~ Philip Kapleau
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
~ Thomas Browne
Death is never polite, even when we expect it.
~ Tiny Tim
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
~ Epicurus
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
~ Mel Brooks
If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?
~ Laozi
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
~ James Thurber
I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.
~ Charles Bukowski
They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living.
~ William Shakespeare
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
~ Michel de Montaigne