Quotes About Resignation

He's not secretive, controlling, or withdrawn for malicious reasons; he just gives up on other people—and on his ability to persuade them of anything—with unhelpful ease.

It seems to me that no matter whether you marry, settle down or live with a bird or not, certain ones simply have your number on them, like bombs in the war; and even if you don't happen to like them all that much there's nothing you can do about it — unless you're prepared to spend a lifetime arguing fate out of existence, which you could probably do if you tried but I'm not the type. —Crust on Its Uppers, p. 87

The Gita does not speak of changing the world. It speaks of appreciating the world that is always changing. Belief in one life makes us want to change the world, control it or resign to the way things are. Belief in rebirth enables us to appreciate all three possibilities, without clinging to any.

His expression seems a sort of surrender: the loss of a thing that he has already lost before.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

right. It's hopeless

You should never feel bad over an outcome whose conclusion was foretold.

A ?ovek umire jedino kad mora i kad ne?e.

There was no good or bad connected with anything any more.......He regretted nothing; wanted nothing. He was simply existing, and the way things were was the way they had always been and always would be. He didn't care any more. He did what had to be done, and endured in a timeless present, without past or future.

Der Fuß war beerdigt, ich war groggy und mein Kaffee war kalt.

There's one advantage to smoking, about which we agree. When our breathing starts to vanish, we will not ask, "Why me?

Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do.

No experimental cures. No life-prolonging – and misery-prolonging – chemotherapy. As far as Colton was concerned, he had made his plans and said his goodbyes and was now letting the tide go out, ever so slightly; the waves came less far up the beach; the sea got further and further from view, bit by bit.

there was absolutely nothing she could do. About anything. And there was something about that that felt oddly freeing.

Margot doesn't see the point in wondering. This is our life; there's no use in asking what if.

Margot doesn't see the point in wondering. This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.

Nobody has the energy to care anymore. We're all just counting down, passing time. Everyone knows where they're going, and the right now already feels like it's in the rearview.