Quotes About Acceptance

A man that fortune's buffets and rewardsHast ta'en with equal thanks.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

Tut! I have done a thousand dreadful thingsAs willingly as one would kill a fly.

Things without all remedyShould be without regard: what's done is done.

My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face.

I could be well contentTo entertain the lag-end of my lifeWith quiet hours.

How oft when men are at the point of deathHave they been merry!

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other,And I will look on both indifferently.

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

Fear no more the heat o' the sun,Nor the furious winter's rages;Thou thy worldly task hast done,Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;Golden lads and girls all must,As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Must I hold a candle to my shames?

God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.

Death is a fearful thing.

I have liv'd long enough: my way of lifeIs fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf;And that which should accompany old age,As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,I must not look to have; but, in their stead,Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.

Death, death: O, amiable lovely death!

If I must die,I will encounter darkness as a bride,And hug it in my arms.

There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature.

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

What's done can't be undone.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.