Quotes About Resignation

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

Americans are really good at throwing their hands up and walking away from things.

If my soul was filled with anything, then it was dust and the ashes of possibilities.

I would like to give you more of my heart,but there is nothing more I can give you. I gave you everything and you crushed it into bits.

Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.

And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave; for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!

When a heart breaks it makes no noise. There are no outward signs, no rash, no bruising. Only a strange calmness that takes over when there are no more tears to shed and no more voice left to howl one's greed into the silence and the resignation that numbs one's senses like a drug, for how else would one be able to go on? People survive in spite of themselves.

The world is tired, the year is old, The faded leaves are glad to die...

It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.

It is time for me to chuck in the sponge. To retire from films and stage. The heart for it has gone out of me: it won't come back.

Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

Tas stared mournfully at the body of the goblin he killed. It had fallen facedown, his dagger buried underneath. "I'll get it for you," Tanis offered, preparing to roll the body over. "No." Tas made a face. "I don't want it back. You can never get rid of the smell, you know.

Soon you give up, don't look for her anymore, either in the town or at night or in the daytime. Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

Niettemin ben ik op de leeftijd gekomen waarop het leven voor ieder mens een aanvaarde nederlaag is.

Ik wist toen nog niet dat de dood voorwerp kan worden van een blinde drang, van een honger zoals de liefde. Ik had niet die nachten voorzien waarin ik mijn riem om mijn dolk zou wikkelen om mezelf te dwingen tweemaal na te denken alvorens mij ervan te bedienen. Alleen Arrianos is doorgedrongen tot het geheim van dat roemloze gevecht tegen de leegte, de dorheid, de vermoeienis, de walging van het bestaan die uitloopt op het verlangen te sterven.

De gewenning zou ons hebben gevoerd naar dat roemloze maar ook ramploze einde dat het leven bewaart voor degenen die de langzame afstomping door slijtage niet afwijzen.

I have nevertheless reached the age where life, for every man, is accepted defeat.

Pero de todos modos he llegado a la edad en que la vida, para cualquier hombre, es una derrota aceptada

He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.

It seemed to her there was a peacefulness about him that came with resignation, with the extinction of that last hope, like a perfect humility undistracted by the possible, the unrealized, the yet to be determined.