Quotes About Resignation

Do you know how it feels to resign yourself to your fate? It is almost welcome. There was to be no more pain, no more fear, no more longing. It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief.

Because she knew already that this would be the thing that would end them. And that in the deepest part of her, she had known it from the beginning, like someone stubbornly ignoring a weed growing until it blocked out the light.

Do you know how it feels to resign yourself to your fate? It is almost welcome. There was to be no more pain, no more fear, no more longing. It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief." The Girl You Left Behind

It was a terrible thing to discover you no longer wanted the life that stretched ahead of you.

Some speak much of the exquisite sweetness, and rest of soul, that is to be found in the exercise of a spirit of resignation to God, and humble submission to His will.

like resigning ourselves to the abandonment of our youthful dreams and the deflation of our youthful hopes.

Sono troppo stanco di compromessi. O forse, sono troppo stanco e basta.

Parecía resignado a la soledad, pero su herida seguía abierta, si bien ahora era una hemorragia interna.

Si das amor a cambio de compañía, resígnate a perder las dos.

Nunca tuve suerte con las mujeres, soporto con resignación una penosa joroba, todos mis familiares más cercanos han muerto, soy un pobre solitario que trabaja en una oficina pavorosa. Por lo demás, soy feliz. »

Lo lógico sería que todos los que ven declinar sus vidas gritaran de espanto, no se resignaran a un futuro de mandíbula colgando y babeo irremediable, y aún menos a ese brutal despedazarse que es la muerte, porque morir es rasgarse en mil pedazos que empiezan a desperdigarse vertiginosamente para siempre, sin testigos.

Envejecer es un desastre. Lo lógico sería que todos los que ven declinar sus vidas gritaran de espanto, no se resignaran a un futuro de mandíbula colgando y babeo irremediable, y aún menos a ese brutal despedazarse que es la muerte, porque morir es rasgarse en mil pedazos que empiezan a desperdigarse vertiginosamente para siempre, sin testigos.

After we hung up, I took the joint. If I was going to die here, in the creepy basement out of a horror movie, in an epic snowstorm that was like an icy prison, with a wife unwilling to pretend-like Bananarama to maybe save her husband's life, I should at least go out with a smile on my face.

It is what it is

She used to think of it vaguely as "We don't get along," but it wasn't even that. There were no clashes or quarrels between them, no question of infidelity. He certainly wasn't the type for an affair, and at forty-eight, her hair graying and her figure gone, she had resigned herself to weary middle age. It was just that together, bleakly confronted with each other, they experienced a vast and hopeless boredom.

The word 'bollocks' is one of the most beautiful and flexible in the English language. It can be used to express emotional states ranging from ecstatic surprise to weary resignation in the face of inevitable disaster. And

The word 'bollocks' is one of the most beautiful and flexible in the English language. It can be used to express emotional states ranging from ecstatic surprise to weary resignation in the face of inevitable disaster.

He may simply have quit in a fit of pique.

pues le pertenecía como una petaca, un mueble o una prenda de ropa, sin que nadie se la pudiera disputar; ¡y ella parecía tan resignada a ser petaca, y siempre petaca!

The idea that a dissenting minister has to resign every time his views are defeated is absurd because on that basis half the cabinet would resign every week and if an election were called those same ministers would have to urge voters to vote for the government from which they had just resigned.

I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

In all honesty, I hope I don't coach again.