Quotes About Resignation

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

But if he pitied himself in those last difficult hours–because he was so young, because he was alone, because his body had betrayed him and his will had let him down– it's not apparent from the photograph. He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes. Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.

Chipper intuited that this feeling of futility would be a fixture in his life. A dull waiting and then a broken promise, a panicked realization of how late it was. This futility had let's call it a flavor.

And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world, a penal colony, and he was doomed to be violently lonely in it.

There are only two reactions to climate change: resignation or resistance. We can submit to death, or we can use the prospect of death to emphasize life.

If I'd been somone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent.

But I knew that there couldn't be pockets that enormous. In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

She didn't love life. There was no convincing reason to live

So much sublimation: domestic closeness had become intimate distance, intimate distance had become shame, shame had become resignation, resignation had become fear, fear had become resentment, resentment had become self-protection.

He pensado muchas veces en los extraños movimientos de la afectividad. Octavio, si en verdad no quería ninguna relación conmigo, no tenía por qué comunicármelo por teléfono, sino simplemente olvidarme. Luego pensé que la mentalidad de oficinista está muy arraigada y ciertas personas se sienten obligadas a presentar su renuncia.

Application, resignation, and chance had gone into the writing; I saw, however, that Daneri's real work lay not in the poetry but in his invention of reasons why the poetry should be admired. Of course, this second phase of his effort modified the writing in his eyes, though not in the eyes of others.

La ya avanzada edad me ha enseñado la resignación de ser Borges

Seré todos o nadie. Seré el otro Que sin saberlo soy, el que ha mirado Ese otro sueño, mi vigilia. La juzga, Resignado y sonriente.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

Preveo que el hombre se resignará cada día a empresas más atroces; pronto no habrá sino guerreros y bandoleros; les doy este consejo: ´El ejecutor de una empresa atroz debe imaginar que ya la ha cumplido, debe imponerse un porvenir que sea irrevocable como el pasado.´

Así combatieron los héroes, tranquilo el admirable corazón, violenta la espada, resignados a matar y a morir'.

Quién se resigna a buscar pruebas de algo no creído por él o cuya prédica no le importa?

He realized that one destiny is no better than the next and that every man must accept the destiny he bears inside himself.

You don't understand death, you learn to acquiesce in death.

The only way to kill me was to welcome his own death, and he did it the moment the chance arose.

What did it matter? We are dying while we are living. We are old even when we're young. We are clinging to life even as we resign ourselves to leaving it.

Hugo thought that it simply could not be otherwise; he would surely somewhere see that beautiful, beloved face that he had daily seen for so long!    But he did not see it.    After his search had gone on for some months, after winter had already cast its snowflakes and its blanket of ice over the city, he gave up his efforts. He sat in his room and held his lovely, weary head in both his hands.