Quotes about Accepting Death

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death. Votes: 3

Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. Votes: 3

I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it. Votes: 3

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody. Votes: 2

There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death. Votes: 2

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. Votes: 2

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different. Votes: 2

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. Votes: 2

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death. Votes: 2

Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that. Votes: 2

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it. Votes: 2

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable. Votes: 2

I'm interested in characters who should know better, who know they should give up, move on, accept life as it is, with all its constraints - life, death, time - but don't. Votes: 2

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me. Votes: 2

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially. Votes: 2

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. Votes: 2

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. Votes: 2