Quotes About Resignation

In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure.

Death was irreversible, he suspected, and he began to think he was going to lose

There was no established procedure for evasive action. All you needed was fear, and Yossarian had plenty of that, more fear than Orr or Hungry Joe, more fear even than Dunbar, who had resigned himself submissively to the idea that he must die someday

and a great, choking moan tore from Yossarian's throat as McWatt turned again, dipped his wings once in salute, decided oh, well, what the hell, and flew into a mountain. Colonel

Why can't you be a fatalist about it the way I am? If I'm destined to unload these lighters at a profit and pick up some Egyptian cotton cheap from Milo, then that's what I'm going to do. And if you're destined to be killed over Bologna, then you're going to be killed, so you might just as well go out and die like a man. I hate to say this, Yossarian, but you're turning into a chronic complainer

Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.

First thing is when your on Death Row long enough you don't ask WHO AM I because you have learnt nobody would be there anyway.

Some days, I wish the whole fucking world would just 'phone in sick.

There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

La paciencia es una de las habilidades más difíciles de lograr para cualquier persona, porque implica desprenderse de las expectativas y resignarse a que las cosas sigan su curso.

de lograr para cualquier persona, porque implica desprenderse de las expectativas y resignarse a que las cosas sigan su curso.

When he hung over the death-bed of his infant son Ibrahim, resignation to the Will of God was exhibited in his conduct under this keenest of afflictions; and the hope of soon rejoining his child in paradise was his consolation. When he followed him to the grave, he invoked his spirit, in the awful examination of the tomb, to hold fast to the foundations of the faith, the Unity of God, and his own mission as a Prophet.

She helped Shamron into his jacket and kissed his cheek. There was simple ritual in this act. How many times had he separated from his wife after hearing that Jews had been killed by a bomb? He had lost count long ago. He had resigned himself, late in life, that it would never end.

He's got that 'born to lose and lose violently' air about him. That's good.

Sammy, wouldn't you like to add up to something? In the future? Amount to something?" "Naw. I just figure to roll on, stackin' days, you know, till the day I fuck up big enough the future gets canceled. Or else all planned out for me, maybe. There's a somewhat likely chance of that." "Man, Sammy, I can't live thinking that way" "Well,I don't think about it.

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

If you're a sailor, best not know how to swim. Swimming only prolongs the inevitable—if the sea wants you and your time has come.

dead might be a lot easier.

maybe its all gonna be over" "Yeah, right." Minho said. "And Frypan's gonna start having little babies, Winston'll get rid of his monster acne, and Thomas here'll actually smile for once

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

He reported sick on the 2d and left the army. When ready for duty he was assigned about Richmond and the seaboard of North Carolina. He applied to be restored to command of his division in the field, but the authorities thought his services could be used better elsewhere. He resigned his commission in the Confederate service, went to Georgia, and joined Joe Brown's militia, where he found congenial service, better suited to his ideas of vigorous warfare.