Quotes About Acceptance

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white

You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.

We do not have too much pain in this life, we have too little... Because through pain we arrive at God. We are death, dust, ashes... how should we complain?

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.

if the goddes can forgive her, can't we?""I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead

The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.

At the graveyard there was no hope, so there was nothing to lose and no chance for disappointment.

He's gone now. He did something terrible, but...he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad.

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

No. Not a death wish. Just very little left to lose.

Throw off your grief, ' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

Stop your weeping. Grief is for the dead.

You don't have any weaknesses.""I have one." He glanced at her.

She didn't want to die. She couldn't imagine wanting to die…Death was for—for other people.

What is the charm in dying when we fully well know that we are not going to get another chance at living?

Don't Fear the Reaper.

As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives -- everyone dies eventually -- but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness.

People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad.

I'll make a beautiful corpse.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

I realized that that was how heartbreak occurred. Your heart wants something, but reality resists it. Death is inert and heavy, and it has no relation to your heart's desires.

Might not live long but I know I'ma die happy.

and to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance.