Acceptance Quote by Edward Abbey

“In much of urban and Western civilization today, with no proper tragic sense of life, we try to believe that it is all upward…

— Richard Rohr

“The tragic sense of life is ironically not tragic at all, at least in the Big Picture. Living in such deep time, connected to…

— Richard Rohr

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic sense of…

— Pete Hamill

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…

— John Dear

Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from…

— Dorothee Solle

“Freedom is not won by a passive acceptance of suffering. Freedom is won by a struggle against suffering. By this measure, Negroes have not…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through complete acceptance of suffering and death, and through…

— Vincent van Gogh

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the…

— Dean Koontz

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

— Constance Rourke

To me I just thought of the tough guys as like these silly Muppets. But getting through life, the heroic thing is if you…

— Kelly Reichardt

“life without heroic deed is no life at all.”

— David Gemmell

I wish my life was something heroic. Like I had an angel looking girlfriend, fighthing with demons and many more

— Yash Tiwari

What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather…

— Alain de Botton

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo