Quotes About Resignation

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Suppose now, not to give them flour, lard. Just dead inside

We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is't to leave betimes, let be. (Hamlet 5.2.217-224)

nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.

Sometimes you just gotta accept that hope is gone.

Will did not think that was fair, but he accepted that kings were often unfair and there was naught to be done about it.

Surely there comes a moment in every human's life when he or she says, like the Sibyl - I wish to die.

He could do little. Brandy might help, he thought, but when he poured some into the hurt man's mouth it ran back out again. Presently a colonel, Johnston's chief of staff, came hurrying into the ravine. But he could do nothing either. He knelt down facing the general. "Johnston, do you know me? Johnston, do you know me?" he kept asking, over and over, nudging the general's shoulder as he spoke. But Johnston did not know him. Johnston was dead.

You don't deal with anything, Savitar. You sit out here in the sun, catching waves, spewing bullshit philosophy you don't follow. (Acheron) You're right. I gave up trying to affect my destiny a long time ago. But that's because every time I tried to change the future, I fucked it up worse. Eventually the rat gets tired of pulling the lever and sits down in his corner to lick his wounds. So if you're ready to hang it up, come sit on the beach with me. (Savitar)

Fine. You win. I quit. You two deal with this. I'm going home. Packing up all my personal items, and when you, Caleb, end up dead because the coach has your jockstrap or something else I didn't steal but someone else did, don't call me. I'm done and I'm going to hide in a bunker until all of this is over with." – Nick "I hate you, Nick." – Caleb "Feels mutual, Demon." – Nick

Quinn gave up thinking. If he could take his head off and shove it in a deep freeze right now, he would.' – Quinn

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

You know, if my life was a horse, I'd shoot it. (Susan)

Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.

It harassed him always, that beautiful snow. He could never understand why he didn't go to California. Yet he stayed in Colorado, in the deep snow, because it was too late now.

so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn't matter why or when or how.

But he's dying". "Who isn't?

He'd just have to lie there and die, watched over by strange stars who didn't know him, didn't care for him. It was very sad, really.

as I had only once to die, I was content to leave the time and place and means in the hand of God

I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?

As for the use of the bomb, she would say, "It was war and we had to expect it." And then she would add, "Shikata ga nai," a Japanese expression as common as, and corresponding to, the Russian word "nichevo": "It can't be helped. Oh, well. Too bad." Dr. Fujii said approximately the same thing about the use of the bomb to Father Kleinsorge one evening, in German: "Da ist nichts zu machen. There's nothing to be done about it.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Of all the different ways we reassure ourselves, the least comforting is this: it's already too late.

Wherever, therefore, any number of men so unite into one society, as to quit everyone his executive power of the law of Nature, and to resign it to the public, there, and there only, is a political or civil society. [....] Hence it is evident that absolute monarchy, which by some men [e.g., Hobbes] is counted the only government in the world, is indeed inconsistent with civil society, and so can be no form of civil government at all.