Quotes About Resignation

Our system requires a continuous supply of highly capable people who are so disgruntled with their jobs that they are willing to chew off their own arms to escape their bosses.

O Wilhelm! the hermit's cell, his sackcloth, and girdle of thorns would be luxury and indulgence compared with what I suffer. Adieu! I see no end to this wretchedness except the grave.

The world is gradually becoming a placewhere I do not care to be any more.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

Humility and resignation are our prime virtues.

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life.

I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.

Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you'd better get used!

Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, 'You're out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?' But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.

Outside, in the pungency of the worn air, he sighed with premonitory tiredness. He locked the door, went up the steps, and headed for the subway that would take him to the upper West Side of town. He walked lightly and his face showed no awareness of all the thousands of people around him because he traveled in an eggshell through which came only subdued light and muffled sound.

You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

Sure, I have resigned from specific love affairs since such a stage of life that one can neither afford nor carry out its obligations; consequently, it may earn significant risks of self-isolation.

The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs above the knee again."

I'm hoping that it is too late for you to flip over on me because it is certainly much too late for me.

I'm dead, but I'm fine

Every morning I called Aeroflot to ask about my suitcase. "Oh, it's you," sighed the clerk. "Yes, I have your request right here. Address: Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy's house. When we find the suitcase we will send it to you. In the meantime, are you familiar with our Russian phrase *resignation of the soul*?

I saw everything before me in good order, possible, realized or realizable. Nevertheless, it was as if I, I myself, might generate failure. Not that I judged myself guilty of this failure; it was as if the guilt were an inheritance and had little to do with me. I was equipped with a kind of advance resignation. Everything is possible, I saw, and in the end every possibility can be exhausted.

Åžairin dudaklar? bitkin bir tebessümle araland?. "Benim art?k doktora ihtiyac?m yok, oÄŸlum. Bana doÄŸrudan mezarc?y? yollasalar daha iyi ederler." "Öyle söylemeyin, üstat." "Mezarc?l?k iyi bir meslektir, Mario. Ä°nsan felsefe öÄŸrenir.

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool.