Quotes About Resignation

Por eso estaba callado y quieto, que era una forma tan buena como otra cualquiera de estar desesperado.

Cuando te toca, ni aunque te quites; y cuando no te toca, ni aunque te pongas, dicen en México).

Ahí les tienen —ríe Bringas, cáustico—: resignados a lo poco que tienen, se arrodillan, rezan y besan la mano de curas y príncipes porque sus padres, tan idiotas como ellos, les enseñaron a hacerlo... No son los tiranos los que hacen esclavos. Son los esclavos los que hacen a los tiranos.

Ya no había nada que él pudiera hacer, así que se dejó ir resignado, triste, como quien se desliza a lo largo de un pozo profundo y oscuro. Hasta

en un mundo injusto como el que le ha tocado conocer, sólo hay dos maneras posibles de soportar la injusticia, sea divina o humana: resignándose a sufrirla, o aliándose con ella.

Apatía y resignación, son las palabras nacionales

Percibí en su voz un tono que ya conocía bien: resignación y ausencia de ilusiones sobre el éxito o fracaso de la empresa; resolución fatigada, silenciosa, desprovista de interés salvo por los detalles técnicos, del soldado veterano dispuesto a afrontar con sencillez un mal rato que forma parte de su oficio.

Eran hombres cuyo valor tranquilo procedía de mentes sencillas: resignados ante el azar, fatalistas sobre la vida y la muerte, obedecían de modo natural sin que la imaginación les jugara malas pasadas. Eran guerreros natos. Soldados perfectos.

el truco en el oficio de las armas es aceptar que ya estás muerto. Asumirlo con indiferencia.

He did not know what resignation meant. He who resigned, he thought, lost his right to live.

I did not like leaving the Rays so abruptly.

I'm not going to beat this life. It's gonna get me in the end. So accepting that is a real freedom and finding a joy in working that I haven't allowed myself before.

I had no interest in continuing with Real Madrid in the way that we were working.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

I have realised that my time has come and gone. I'm not bitter, just a realist.

UFC, take me off your list. Take me off your Hall of Fame.

Don't confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they 'ought to be.' And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope!

We're all fucked. It helps to remember this.

We're all fucked. It helps to remember that.

Joy and peace are not resignation: resignation is the willing endurance of a pain that is not allayed – that you don't expect to be allayed. Stupefaction is not resignation: and it is stupefaction to remain in ignorance – to shut up all the avenues by which the life of your fellow-men might become known to you. I am not resigned: I am not sure that life is long enough to learn that lesson. You are not resigned: you are only trying to stupefy yourself.

Stupefaction is not resignation; and it is stupefaction to remain in ignorance,–to shut up all the avenues by which the life of your fellow-men might become known to you.

There is no more to be said. Things cannot be altered, and who cares? It makes no difference to any one else what we do. We must try not to care ourselves. We must not give way. I dread giving way. Help me to he quiet.

She saw the years to come stretch before her like an autumn afternoon, filled with resigned memory. Life to her could never more have any eagerness; it was a solemn service of gratitude and patient effort. She walked in the presence of unseen witnesses—of the Divine love that had rescued her, of the human love that waited for its eternal repose until it had seen her endure to the end.

Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.