Acceptance Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead…

— Helen Keller

“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. The mild serenity of age takes the place…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The old grief of the great mystery of human life gradually passes into a quiet, tender joy; in place of the boiling blood of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or…

— Walt Whitman

“the Garden of Death" "Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's…

— Oscar Wilde

For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an…

— Robert Jordan

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

— Jane Addams

“The process which had begun in her - and in he a little earlier only than it must come to all of us -…

— Marcel Proust

The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end…

— Marcel Proust

“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or…

— Susan Sontag

Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in…

— Rabindranath Tagore