Quotes About Accepting Death

#1. For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.

David Zindell

#2. In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

Joan Halifax

#3. Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage. That was to be Gansey's greatness.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#5. This world is made for the living, Dan. Death, and accepting death, is a part of life.

Karen McQuestion

#6. Life has gotten too much. I have no problem with dying as I am. I don't have the energy to go out and find a method to help me take my life. But quietly accepting death, that I can handle.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Accepting death folds the soul, tempers and layers it like a Damascus blade. When I'd thrown myself into the canal in grief, only to be pulled out by the Moor, I'd become colder, more durable.

Christopher Moore

#8. Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.

Caitlin Doughty

#9. His laugh and his voice were both pleasant. He talked the way New Yorkers used to talk before they learned to talk Flatbush.

Raymond Chandler

#10. I'm very emotional. I do feel stuff, for better or worse.

James Patterson

#11. I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Jack Kevorkian

#12. We were
existing somewhere between life and death, with neither accepting us
fully.

Susan Abulhawa

#13. Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#14. It's not death if you refuse it ... It is if you accept it.

James O'Barr

#15. It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

Mark Twain

#16. The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#17. The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

Seth MacFarlane

#18. [ ... ] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who is prepared to live right now, in this instant, fully accepting that this may be their last moment on earth.

A.C. Ping

#19. I think myself so terribly 'clever' that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I'm 'cleverly' creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that the only thing that is relevant is His relevance.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

Saint Bernard

#21. [I]n the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy stereotypes. What did they find? In a nutshell: Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong.

Steven Pinker

#22. Because the reality of death has not yet penetrated awareness, survivors can appear to be quite accepting of the loss.

Joan Didion

#23. She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

Ellen Hopkins

#24. I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.

Phil Gramm

#25. I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.

Carrie Ann Inaba

#26. That Mossberg," Boris said to me, accepting the bottle passed over the front seat. "Evil dirty thing. Sawed off
? sprays pellets here to Hamburg. Aim it way the fuck away from everyone and still you will hit half the people in the room.

Donna Tartt

#27. The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place.

Jacques Ellul

#28. New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Mark Twain

#29. Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

Jeff Miller

#30. I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Albert Camus

#31. All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.

David Mamet

#32. Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#33. The dignity we create in the time allotted to us becomes a continuum with the dignity we achieve by the altruism of accepting the necessity of death.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#34. Give and Take ...
For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love
And to both, bee and flower,
the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.

Khalil Gibran

#35. A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap ... I was just in the right place at the right time.

Alexis Bledel

#36. About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.

Ken Loach

#37. We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.

Malcolm Turnbull

#38. 'Scent's the thing, right? How you find someone. I've got yours inside me. I could find you whether I wanted to or not. Whether you wanted me to or not.'
'I'm not lost.'
'I still found you.'

Nora Roberts