Quotes About Resignation

There's an air of things closing down. Teachers wear shorts and T-shirts to class. They show movies while they clean out their desks. Nobody has the energy to care anymore. We're all just counting down, passing time.

He was marrying my girl, and I couldn't do anything about it.

I know we'll never be friends again, and I've made my peace with it.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

sentado sobre un viejo sillón desgastado, en una esquina sombría de la habitación, desmoronado, sin ganas de hacer alguna cosa, desilusionado por la cadena de fracasos en los últimos años;

Elgyöngülök, egyszerre csak nem bírom tovább. Nem akarok már káromkodni, nincs értelme, szeretnék összeesni, és sohasem kelni fel többé.

To hell with it. What was the use trying to make safe and sure our little life? Sooner or later the great wave must come and sweep it all away. "What about a drink with me, Fred?

We sit as if in our graves waiting only to be closed in.

You have Weltschmerz. Don't try and fight against it. Life is gay but imperfect.

Hai ragione: non siamo più giovani, non ci interessa più dare l'assalto al mondo. Siamo dei profughi, fuggiamo da noi stessi. Avevamo diciott'anni, e cominciavamo ad amare il mondo e l'esistenza: ci hanno costretti a spararle contro. La prima granata ci ha colpiti al cuore. Siamo esclusi ormai dall'attività, dal lavoro, dal progresso, non ci crediamo più. Crediamo alla guerra.

La vie s'écoule alors sans heurt dans la grande plaine des renoncements.

Corbin wanted, quite simply, to die. He had wished for death many times over his long lifespan, but never as fervently as he did while Beth Adams rattled off breastfeeding statistics, her baby sucking industriously, mouth fully around the entire areola, as Sam was quick to point out, finger outlining the area in question. Corbin was speechless. -Corbin at Baby Boot Camp

I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers.

You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

he said it now in a complete embracing of all that would not be

By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.' Damned fine, eh?

He was not at all afraid of dying but he was angry at being trapped on this hill which was only utilizable as a place to die.

If one must die, he thought, and clearly one must, I can die. But I hate it.

No. Rien à faire. Rien. Faut pas penser. Faut accepter.

no me gusta esa resignación. Es un sentimiento malo que se adueña de los hombres cuando están a punto de alejarse o de traicionar; es el sentimiento que precede a la liquidación.

Rude?os ar skumj?m samierinies.

Within the confines of the great, universal prison, I had made for myself a smaller prison, a prison made to order. I had carved out for myself a little niche in which I could live. It was tiny, I had no doubt about that point. But at least it was made to measure, to my measure. A little niche in a prison that kept me from seeing the prison. A prison without work? Was I bored? Was I resigned? Tired, no doubt.

The fear of death was my truest shield. Now the walls have collapsed. And here I am, defenseless, exposed to the blazing inferno of life, and in the freezing grip of despair. I wanted life and life has hurled itself at me. It's crippling me, killing me. Why didn't I have the sense to welcome resignation? All my old scars have opened, my wounds are bleeding again. Thousands of knives are driving into my flesh.