Quotes About Resignation

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

I'm done. I'm retiring. I'm getting out of the MMA world.

So, it was a tough decision to leave Facebook, but it was definitely the right decision. I haven't regretted it at all.

Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said 'why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?'. And it is what I have done.

I am not going to participate in professional politics again.

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

I'm not going to love again," she declared in little clipped words. It was though she bit off the very end of each. "I can't.

Din marele elan al transform?rii egalitariste a umanit??ii nu a r?mas, pân? la urm?, mult mai mult decât autoprivilegierea nedisimulat? a funcÈ›ionarilor – ca s? nu mai vorbim de paralizia, resemnarea È™i cinismul pe care le-a l?sat moÈ™tenire.

He was particularly disgruntled to see what he had taken for a bundle of old rags on the tracks outside was a human body. He did not say "Not again" (what he said was "Shit on this"), but "Not again" was what he meant.

What do you do when you've finally resigned yourself to your own inevitable extermination, and someone offers you a way out? Any hope in a place like this almost has to be false; all it can do is shake your determination, tempt you with thoughts of after this is over when you should just be thinking about getting the job done now. Hope is distraction, hope is fear undercutting resolve, because hope gives you back that most terrible of battlefield commodities: something to lose.

Bir ?ey ümit etmemenin rahatl???ndan ba?ka bar?nacak ruhi bir kö?em kalmam??t?.

Denizde, dalgalar aras?nda bo?ulaca??n? anlad?ktan sonra hiç bir hareket yapmayarak kendilerini suya sal?verenler ve felâketi bir an evvel isteyenler gibi kendimi b?rakm??t?m. Bir ?ey ümit etmemenin rahatl???ndan ba?ka bar?nacak ruhi bir kö?em kalmam??t?. Art?k hiçbir ?ey tahmin edemiyor, hiçbir ?ey beklemiyordum.

Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.

When you're that resigned and oppressed you're already dead. It shows the genocide was prepared for too long. I detest this fear. These victims of genocide had been psychologically prepared to expect death just for being Tutsi. They were being killed for so long that they were already dead.

William Leonard Courtney (then sixty-one-year-old theatre and literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, he had been an Oxford professor of philosophy until forced to resign when his homosexuality became public knowledge)

The older I got the less I cared about anything.

I felt like a character in a science fiction story, trapped in someone else's body, articulating someone else's words. To be frank, I bored even myself. And by the time I was thirty-six, my course was set, my die stamped, I knew I would never change.

I always wondered how it would feel when it was over,' said Malik eventually. 'Turns out it doesn't feel like anything, much.

I wasn't looking for a diversion, or a way to soothe my pain. I wasn't looking for an alternative. I just gave in to the ease of it. That was all.

Living by her side was like living in a fairy tale because she had these moments of pure poetry—she invented whole worlds. He tells me that eventually she was placed in a specialized institution, that in the end his father resigned himself to it: the death of his soul. She is still there.

Pour finir, il dit qu'il m'aime et je le crois. Il parle d'une voix épuisée, presque résignée, comme pour un baroud d'honneur. Je l'écoute. Je lui souris faiblement. Je ne lui réponds rien. Je sais qu'il va partir, alors que, lui, l'ignore encore.

Ecco quindi la mia conclusione: la rassegnazione non ha nulla da invidiare all'eroismo.

There is a sense of resignation among most people who voted Remain that we have to 'man up' - even the women among us - and make the most of what we know will be a rotten Brexit.