Acceptance Of Death Quotes

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

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Life, War, Acceptance

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.9, Bottom of the Hill

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

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Acceptance, Choose Life

  Elizabeth Lesser (2010). “Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow”, p.95, Random House

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• Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

  Alan Watts

  Sleep, Acceptance, Skeletons

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• 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

  Live Life, Acceptance, Giving

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

  Freya Stark

  Death, Acceptance, Successful

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.45, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• 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

  Acceptance, Order, Suffering And Death

  John Dear (2009). “Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action”, p.82, Image

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

  Ronald Blythe

  Acceptance, Joy, One Thing

  Ronald Blythe (1984). “Characters & Their Landscapes”, Harvest Books

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• It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to love and a time to die - and when my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however, I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Running, Science, Acceptance

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.478, W. W. Norton & Company

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