Quotes About Resignation

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

You leave me much against my will.

Tenía los ojos fijos adelante, sin mirar a nadie ni nada en particular, como quien busca respuestas dentro de sí mismo. Por fin habló, aunque fue breve: "Cagamos", declaró, y bajó la mirada.

That's the way the cookie crumbles.

Abdicate, v.: to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.

O Death, thou comest when I had thee least in mind.

He gave up the ghost.

Curse God, and die.

Not my will, but thine, be done.

Ruat coelum, fiat voluntas tua [Though heaven should fall, let thy will be done].

In the scullery she says, if the end of the world is upon them, they might as well finish all the wine.

I once asked a Jesuit preist what was the best short prayer he knew. He said "Fuck it." as in "Fuck it, it's in Gods hands.

He was forty-three years old now and he was beginning to see that this was his life. These were the cards that he had been dealt.

You can't help being a doll, she said with a resigned sigh, any more than Lavinia and Jessie can help not having any sense. We are not all made alike. Perhaps you do your sawdust best. And she kissed her and shook her clothes straight, and put her back upon her chair.

Francine Pascal

Otra vez me vino a los labios una especie de disculpa. Ante las demostraciones de suficiencia absoluta casi siempre me rindo, anonadado.

It was time to lie down and die.

I want to live as long as I can, and die when I can't help it.

I do not fear to die, that pang is past. God raises my weakness, and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of Heaven!~~Justine Moritz

I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity

So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the eyes of an animal, to feel no compunction, with your own hand to throttle down whatever ghostly life remains in you.

After tormenting myself for a long time, I am stopping. I am unable and in the near future will scarcely be able to complete the remaining pieces.

By his own account he had no real contact with the local colony of his countrymen and virtually no social intercourse with the Russian families and so resigned himself to becoming an incurable bachelor.