Quotes about Acceptance

You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised

If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.

Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief.

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

You'd think a man that had waited eighty some odd years on God to come into his life, well, you'd think he'd come. If he didnt you'd still have to figure that he knew what he was doin. I don't know what other description of God you could have. So what you end up with is that those he has spoke to are the ones that must of needed it the worst. That's not a easy thing to accept.

Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity.

I no longer have an opinion about reality. I used to. Now I dont. The first rule of the world is that everything vanishes forever. To the extent that you refuse to accept that then you are living in a fantasy.

The elevation of grief to a status transcending that which it sorrows.

You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes he is.

It was defeat. It was being beaten. More bitter to him than death. You need to get over that, he said.

I just meant I'd seen things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I don't know . Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison.