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Quotes About Acceptance

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
~ Charles Bukowski
Death is no different whined at than withstood.
~ Philip Larkin
Divorce is probably as painful as death.
~ William Shatner
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
~ Petrarch
What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
~ Epictetus
Even death is wonderful because, as Woody Allen says, we're not going to know when it happens.
~ Gloria Vanderbilt
Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death.
~ Henri
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
~ Pope John XXIII
So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
~ Bob Inglis
They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.
~ John Green
She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.
~ Ellen Hopkins, Identical
Failure too is a form of death.
~ Graham Greene
I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.
~ Larry Kramer
Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.
~ Allison Pearson
Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
~ Kurt Vonnegut
How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.
~ Mark Twain
Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
To philosophize is to learn to die.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.
~ Charles Bukowski
I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.
~ Dan Barker
Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
~ Richard Dawkins
I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.
~ Unknown