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Quotes About Resignation

Lido sniffled and wiped his nose. "That'd be
~ John Lutz
Go to hell." Io said. Rudolf nodded. Then he picked up his raincoat, turned around, and went to hell. Up to then, I hadn't been impressed by the quality of the writing, but that ending blew me away. He turned around, picked up his raincoat, and went to hell.
~ Elif Batuman
Kit drew breath in an agony of anticipation, felt Mehiel's surrender in the coldness of his brands.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Kit bit his cheek on tired laughter, all his irritation draining away. Perhaps I've just been used too much to care any more, he thought.
~ Elizabeth Bear
We're fucked," Seeker confirmed. "Welcome to fairytales. Have a nice day. Canapé?
~ Elizabeth Bear
As for Thomas, the longer he lived, the less he cared for the world.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
It was the truth, but that made it no more palatable.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
I do not like the people who read fifteen books by a man who has written three worth reading.' 'But if one enjoys reading, one must be resigned to many disappointments.' 'Disappointments – certainly. But if you read a book and are disappointed, it is because you intended to be pleased.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
because what good would it do when a true understanding of what was in store for them couldn't save them from any of it?
~ Elizabeth Knox
Too bad, how sad, life's a bitch and then you die.
~ Elizabeth Lowell
I've been as good as dead since the day I was born. I accepted that a very long time ago.
~ Elizabeth Morgan
I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.
~ Elizabeth Scott
the sight of him then broke my heart. But I was used to that feeling—I had it almost every time after I saw him.
~ Elizabeth Strout
It did not matter at this point; my life had unfolded as it had.
~ Elizabeth Strout
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
~ Arthur Golden
Resignation, "passive self-perfecting," and "etherealization": these were the components for the new Western self-image. At the same time that modern liberals embraced the goals and assumptions of welfare state New Liberalism, they gave up their self-confident, competitive edge. Toynbee's father-in-law, Gilbert Murray, coined a term for this: "failure of nerve.
~ Arthur Herman
And think of me. It's worth the loss of the world. I'm lucky to see my suffering ended. Alas: my life was little more than a few mild madnesses.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Death by hanging...well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
~ Arthur Seyss-Inquart
The becoming attitude for us to take is that of godly fear, implicit obedience, and unreserved resignation and submission. But not only so: the recognition of the sovereignty of God, and the realization that the Sovereign Himself is my Father, ought to overwhelm the heart and cause me to bow before Him in adoring worship. At all times I must say "Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in Thy sight.
~ Arthur W. Pink
When we trustfully resign ourselves, and all our affairs into God's hands, fully persuaded of His love and faithfulness, the sooner shall we be satisfied with His providences and realize that "He doeth all things well.
~ Arthur W. Pink
When we trustfully resign ourselves, and all our affairs into God's hands, fully persuaded of His love and faithfulness, the sooner shall we be satisfied with his providence and realize that "He doeth all things well.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Creo que en el mundo de hoy la única libertad posible es la indiferencia. Por eso seguiré viviendo con mi sable y mi caballo.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
However, one certainty floated in the air: that night, at the end of a conversation that should have brought them closer, something had been broken between them, definitively and forever. He did not know what, but there was the unmistakable noise of pieces shattering to the ground about him. The young woman would never forgive him for his cowardice -- or for his resignation.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Cuando te toca, ni aunque te quites; y cuando no te toca, ni aunque te pongas.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte