Quotes About Resignation

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

I don't put my faith or trust in anyone anymore. After a while you just get tired of being disappointed constantly.

These are the creatures we usually fall in love with, only to suffer the more. For each new anxiety they cause us blots out from our eyes a part of their personality. We were resigned to suffering, thinking we loved something outside ourselves, and we come to realize that our love is a function of our sadness, that perhaps it is our sadness, and that its object is only to a small extent the young girl with raven hair.

Doubtless my books, like my fleshly being, would, some day, die. But one must resign oneself to death. One accepts the thought that one will die in ten years and one's books in a hundred. Eternal duration is no more promised to works than to men.

The hierophant was not even conscious of my absence. When he heard of it, he was distressed: "What, you didn't see me carving the turkeys myself?" I replied that having failed, so far, to see Rome, Venice, Siena, the Prado, the Dresden gallery, the Indies, Sarah in Phèdre, I had learned to resign myself, and that I would add his carving of turkeys to my list.

I told my mother, knowing the pain I was causing her, which she did not show, and which betrayed itself in her only by that look of serious concern she wore when she compared the gravity of making me unhappy or of doing me harm, the look she had worn in Combray for the first time when she had resigned herself to spending the night beside me, that look which at this moment bore an extraordinary resemblance to that of my grandmother when she allowed me to drink cognac,

I shook my head.

Even more than the rest, these five questions are most directly influenced by the employee's immediate manager. What does this tell us? It tells us that people leave managers, not companies.

Als leven een baan is, wilde ik ontslag nemen. Maar ik kon het kantoor niet vinden dat over ontslagaanvragen ging.

The world's ending, yeah. It's begun to bore her ...

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not endured with patient resignation.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que la puntual maceta que se derrumba sobre uno desde un séptimo piso

Siento que también hay algo en mí que hace una mueca de resignación, que algo en mí se crispa contra Nada, porque Dios y Destino y Materialismo Dialéctico son meros slogans que lanzaron Abraham y Spengler y Marx, no precisamente para formarnos o transformarnos o conformarnos, sino para hacernos olvidar de las únicas metas razonables y obligatorias, verbigracia el suicidio o la locura.

Me siento con una gran disponibilidad de energía, y no sé en qué emplearla, no sé qué hacer con ella. Creo que vos te resignaste a ser opaco, y eso me parece horrible, porque yo sé que no sos opaco. Por lo menos, que no lo eras».

Although the thought has occurred to me regularly over the past two decades that, at least in the United States, it is simply impossible to be, with integrity, both evangelical and intellectual, this epistle is not a letter of resignation from the evangelical movement.

If the choice on offer is between pasta primavera mix with freeze-dried chicken chunks and being among the first wave of deaths in the apocalypse, I hereby enthusiastically place my order for oblivion.

I don't mind dying, the trouble is you feel so bloody stiff the next day.