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Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

— Robert Smith

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

— Sakshi Tanwar

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.

— Martha Beck

Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.

— Caitlin Doughty

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

— Henry Rollins

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

— Hugh Hefner

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

— Pierce Brosnan

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

— Pat Burns

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

— Caitlin Doughty