Quotes About Acceptance Of Death

#1. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Miyamoto Musashi

#2. The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Sting

#3. An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

Freya Stark

#4. Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

Ronald Blythe

#5. It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.

Elizabeth Lesser

#6. See, you've got to understand, son. There's two types of guys in this world. There's guys . . . who think they're in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.

Brent Jones

#7. As a dispensation, grace begins with the death and resurrection of Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; 4:24,25). The point of testing is no longer legal obedience as the condition of salvation, but acceptance or rejection of Christ, with good works as a fruit of salvation ...

C.I. Scofield

#8. a healthy fear of death drives a person to continue creating until the very end, but with that fear must come the acceptance that even your life's work will, in some ways, remain unfinished.

Jeff Goins

#9. My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

A. N. Wilson

#10. This wonderful gray of acceptance resides between the extremes of black and white thinking; looking for serenity, explore the gray. Part of that acceptance is understanding that life is hard and involves life and death. Part of that acceptance is that I am responsible for my actions.

David W. Earle

#11. She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.

Tess Gerritsen

#12. The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

Frederick Lenz

#13. The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#14. There's peace in acceptance. Death in it, always. Inevitable. With the acceptance of one thing comes the dying of another: a new belief, a relationship. An ideal, a plan, a what-if. Assumptions. A path. A song.

Sarah Ockler

#15. Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

Ram Dass

#16. He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he'd peed himself, it didn't matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going.

Henry V. O'Neil

#17. When DEATH stares in our faces..
We can just 'stare' back at it!
'All' falls flat in the deathly moments!
No explanations, no reasons, no justifications sound good enough!! Acceptance alone stands out as the truth!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#18. Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.

John Dear

#19. Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss.

Julianna Baggott

#20. No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.

Henry George

#21. It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. There is no justification or acceptance of homosexuality ... Homosexuality means the death of society because homosexuals can recruit, but they cannot reproduce.

John Hagee

#22. The antidote to busyness of soul is not sloth and indifference. The antidote is rest, rhythm, death to pride, acceptance of our own finitude, and trust in the providence of God.

Kevin DeYoung

#23. We cannot expect life to be perfect. But we can expect to see life come from death. We can expect to see morning after night. We can expect that acceptance of the struggle will give rise to the victory over self.

Joan D. Chittister

#24. (on Liam Neeson's coping with the death of his wife) ... It's been years and he continues to struggle each and every day, but he is honest with himself about how he feels and continues to work to find acceptance in heartbreak.

Huffington Post

#25. The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, 'Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There's already enough beauty where you are.

Rachael Wade

#26. And she knew she was not sure, she would never be sure, because uncertainty is the essence of the human condition, and death is the one barrier beyond which we cannot see. There is no hope but faith, no knowledge but the acceptance of ignorance.
Yet still she hoped that one day she would know.

Jan Siegel

#27. It seems impossible to wheedle his way out of his impending death. No one has before him. But just as a young person feels invincible, he cannot bring himself to accept the looming train as he stands upon the tracks feeling the deep rumbling of the behemoth barreling straight toward him.

M. Starks

#28. According to Elizabeth Kubler Ross, there are fivestages of grief a person passes through after the death of aloved one: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Colleen Hoover

#29. Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

Carol Leifer

#30. The four stages of acceptance:
1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so."

(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)

J.B.S. Haldane

#31. Love of fate?" "It means acceptance. Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced, I suppose.

Kate Atkinson