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Quotes About Acceptance

Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.
~ William Butler Yeats
There's death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
~ William Goldman
The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!
~ William Shakespeare
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.
~ Stephen King, The Green Mile
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.
~ Maya Angelou
I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.
~ Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Grief is like a drunken house guest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones
I care not a man can die but once we owe God a death.
~ William Shakespeare
Part of us did die. Literally - that tissue on your face, the part they removed. It died. And you can't recover from any kind of death without mourning it.
~ Unknown
There was no hope in death, only an end.
~ Morgan Rhodes, Rebel Spring
I fear death. I think I must learn to romanticize death so that I can cope with its brutal irreversible numbness...!
~ Lukhman Pambra
Death might be a blessing if it means you never have to face this kind of grief.
~ Carol Cassella, Oxygen
The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74
~ Unknown
Death could be waiting for him, but he wasn't afraid. Whether it be sooner or later, he welcomed the inevitability with open arms.
~ Unknown
Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
The thought of death destroys some people and saves others.
~ Marty Rubin
Death is not something you get over. It's the rip that exposes life in a before and after chasm, and all you can do is try to exist as best you can in the after.
~ Unknown
Don't be surprised when Death comes knocking. Be surprised when he goes away empty handed.
~ Anthony T.Hincks
You gain inner peace when you become comfortable with the reality of death.
~ Steven Magee
***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more
~ Alan Brennert, Moloka'i