Quotes About Resignation

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.

Zhuangzi, another pivotal Daoist sage in the fourth century BCE, says, "Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you—this is the best.

La muerte, que a todos nos pone cerco desde el nacimiento, sólo es un trance, un suceso que puede propiciarse sin remilgos

Maybe even suicide would have been too active. Maybe in some lives you just float around and expect nothing else and don't even try to change. Maybe that was most lives.

Hasta el suicidio le habría parecido una medida demasiado «activa». Quizá en algunas vidas uno simplemente flota sin esperar nada más, sin intentar siquiera cambiar. Quizá así fueran la mayoría de vidas.

sighed in resignation, having long since given up on today's youth and their utter historical illiteracy, a product of their deliberate educational brainwashing.

It must be the strong affection of the youth, and the espousals, that will carry us on to follow God in a wilderness, with an implicit faith and an entire resignation; and it is a pity that those who have so followed him should ever leave him.

Ralph Peters, a conservative uber-hawk and former army intelligence officer who in early 2018 resigned in disgust as a Fox commentator. In a scorching letter of resignation leaked to BuzzFeed, he wrote, "Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.

Shikata ga nai: it could not be helped. If this was a monumentally inadequate excuse for condemning millions to death without hope of securing any redemptive compensation, it is a constant of history that nations which start wars find it very hard to stop them.

If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.

ljudi nekud idu, vra?aju se, žure, vidim ih iz svoje nesabrane daljine, kao mrave, i znam da bi trebalo da se i ja priklju?im, da budem užurban, da nekud odlazim, da dolazim, da se oko ne?ega trudim, a ne da buljim ovako u tavanicu, u prazninu. Ali ne mogu. Gledam kroz prozor i nastojim da ne mislim na nerješive stvari, ali ne mogu da se oslobodim tereta što me tišti.

Da odemo nekud iz ovog grada kada ozdravim? -Kuda? -Svejedno. -Pitala sam te jednom: od ?ega bježiš? -Volio bih da ne budeš toliko razumna, volio bih da mi kažeš: oti?i ?emo. Sigurno ne bismo otišli. Kuda da odemo? Ali bih bio zadovoljan tvojom spremnoš?u da me prihvatiš ma kakav da sam.

Ne voliš ljude? -Ljudi su kona?no izdijeljeni, niko nam ne može pomo?i, ponekad se pravimo da to ne znamo, ili zaboravljamo jer nam izgleda nemogu?e, ne mirimo se ali je tako. Neka idu do ?avola. -Ni život ne voliš? -Ostavi me na miru! Šta ho?eš da volim? Slaganje varke na varku, davno sam negdje pro?itao. I smijao se. Sad se ne smijem. Nije veseo taj tvoj život.

Ima stvari koje se moraju u?initi, ali je još više stvari sa kojima se moramo pomiriti.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Okay, would you like pizza?" "I don't think you deserve my company but I feel sorry for you so I'll say yes." "God help me," he said, half under his breath.

I feel tears well in my eyes and I can't even stop them from happening. I can't stop anything from happening in my life.

After all, Leonie knew better than most that there were some situations that just couldn't be fixed, and some actions that couldn't be undone.

He didn't slam the door, didn't rage, didn't weep, he simply left.

Houve um tempo em que pensei poder mudar esse mundo. Mas hoje desisti. Aquele é um corpo que está vivo graças à sua própria doença. Vive do crime, se alimenta de imoralidade.

A velhice não é uma idade, é uma decisão. - Uma decisão? - A velhice é uma desistência.

That's life, Ash", the boy called into his ear. "There ain't no why, and there ain't no answers.

He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears to have surrendered. It is rational,