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Quotes About Resignation

Every time I caught Dee's eye – wearing an expression of weary resignation, the look of a man who had turned up again after five years to discover that things were as ridiculous as ever – I had a fit of the giggles.
~ Elton John
At least we're all together, finally." Matt sighed when they had come to another stop. "Yeah, great," Tony whispered. "And now we can all die together.
~ Elvira Woodruff
No use wishing now for any other sin.
~ Elvis Costello
Personal imi dau demisia din omenire.
~ Emil Cioran
The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign themselves to the difficulties or the doltishness of fate; they hope: hope is a slave's virtue.
~ Emil Cioran
By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be my sole glory. . . . Let "desire" be forever stricken from the dictionary, and from the soul! I retreat before the dizzying farce of tomorrows. And if I still cling to a few hopes, I have lost forever the faculty of hoping
~ Emil Cioran
Marii singuratici nu s-au retras niciodat? spre a se preg?ti pentru via??, ci pentru a suporta interioriza?i ?i resemna?i lichidarea vie?ii din ei.
~ Emil Cioran
În sfârÅŸit, înÅ£elepciunea. Nu-mi mai fac niciun plan, nu mai scriu un rând. Cincisprezece c?rÅ£i, cincisprezece cadavre - cred c? ajunge.
~ Emil Cioran
Cu s?n?tatea n-am de ce s? m? plîng. Am ajuns ÅŸi eu în via??, dup? multe revolte inutile, s? m? resemnez, s? nu mai iau parte la lucruri ÅŸi evenimente, s? le privesc.
~ Emil Cioran
As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and aesthetic ideals? It's all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?
~ Emil Cioran
De cum se intereseaza cineva de cartile mele,stiu ca e "terminat",ca ceva s-a frant in el,ca nu va fi in stare sa se "descurce" in viata.Nu strang in jurul meu decat invinsi. Patronul Invinsilor.
~ Emil Cioran
Deceptiile repetate presupun ambitii inumane. Oamenii cu adevarat tristi sint acei care, neputind rasturna totul, s-au acceptat ca ruina a propriului ideal.
~ Emil Cioran
Lacul Soustons, ora dou? dup?-amiaz?. Vîsleam. Deodat?, fulgerat de o reminiscen?? de vocabular: 'All is of no avail' (nimic nu serveÅŸte la nimic). S? fi fost singur, m? aruncam pe dat? în ap?. Niciodat? n-am simÅ£it cu asemenea violen?? nevoia s? termin cu toate.
~ Emil Cioran
Man accepts death but not the hour of his death. To die any time, except when one has to die!
~ Emil M. Cioran
What are the occupations of the sage? He resigns himself to seeing, to eating, etc…., he accepts in spite of himself this "wound with nine openings," which is what the Bhagavad-Gita calls the body.?Wisdom? To undergo with dignity the humiliation inflicted upon us by our holes.
~ Emil M. Cioran
If you are doomed to devour yourself, nothing can keep you from it: a trifle will impel you as much as a tragedy. Resign yourself to erosion at all times: your fate wills it so.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Getting up with my head full of plans, I would be working, I was sure of it, all morning long. No sooner had I sat down at my desk than the odious, vile, and persuasive refrain: "What do you expect of this world?" stopped me short. And I returned, as usual, to my bed with the hope of finding some answer, of going back to sleep.
~ Emil M. Cioran
I knew nothingness by heart, and I accepted my knowledge.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Renunciation is the only kind of action that is not degrading.
~ Emil M. Cioran
And I was alone, had been for a while, and might be for a while, but it no longer frightened me the way it had. I was discovering something terrifyingly simple: there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. I was discovering this in the way, I suppose, that everybody does, but having tried, endlessly, to do something about it.
~ baldwin james v
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.
~ ballou hosea iii
Con tutta me stessa avrei voluto fermarmi: smettere di camminare, smettere di vivere. Il pensiero che ci sarebbe stato un domani, e poi un dopodomani, e poi una settimana, non mi era mai sembrato tanto insopportabile. Continuare a vivere nei giorni a venire con quella sensazione di sconforto totale mi ripugnava. Mi era ingrata anche la mia stessa figura che percorreva le strade come quelle di qualsiasi altro passante notturno senza rivelare lo scompiglio che aveva dentro.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
You can think of death bitterly or with resignation, as a tragic interruption of your life, and take every possible measure to postpone it. Or, more realistically, you can think of life as an interruption of an eternity of personal nonexistence, and seize it as a brief opportunity to observe and interact with the living, ever-surprising world around us.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
A young man in a white coat was pouring some rich fragrant liquid into her cup. She accepted it with gratitude and resignation, for it was strong and bitter, almost medicinal, and as she drank she was conscious that it was doing her good. Tea is more healthy than alcohol and much cheaper, she reflected, and there must be thousands of people who know this.
~ Barbara Pym