Embracing the Inevitable Quotes

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.

It was over now, and the meaningless world was tolerable and need not be explained. And never would it be, and how foolish I had ever been to think so.

We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

The decisive moment in a man’s life is when he decides to confront death.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.

I realized that it's insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose-but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It's blowing!

I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.

Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.

I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?