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Quotes About Acceptance

It's strange," Moominmamma thought. "Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that's the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.
~ Tove Jansson
He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.
~ Gene Weingarten
Things I Want to Happen After I die: You're allowed to be sad, but you're not allowed to be too sad. If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me? —Sam McQueen
~ Sally Nicholls
Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.
~ Anne Carson
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything
~ David Almond
Drawing Lavi's smile eases me precisely because he has such a sad fate.
~ Katsura Hoshino
Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?
~ Oscar Wilde
How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad.
~ Elvis Presley
Why don't people just accept that life is sad and cheer up? After all, it's not going to last for ever.
~ Jeremy Hardy
I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.
~ Lemony Snicket, The End
I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.
~ Shania Twain
It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen
~ Nicholas Sparks, Dear John
I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.
~ Mattie Stepanek
Death is sad, yes, but there are some great laughs you can find there.
~ Laurel Nakadate
I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
~ Adriana Trigiani
Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.
~ Richard Simmons
And if someone doesn't believe in any afterlife?" I asked. Walt gave me a sad look. "Then that's what they experience.
~ Rick Riordan
After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
~ John Milton
There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is
~ Gretchen Rubin