Quotes About Resignation

We cannot change our destiny. We just have to have the courage to know what it is, and accept it.

Sorry, Bramblestar!" Purdy gasped. "I'm too old and stiff for this. I can't get up or down, so I'd better live here, okay?

I'm going to die whatever you do, but I'm not afraid.

because I knew there was a good chance it was going to end up getting me killed. But at this point, I no longer cared.

She had this vague look in her eyes, half-disappointed, half what's-the-difference. Like someone who realized he bought skim milk by mistake and doesn't have the energy to take it back.

Fuck it, Dude.

From politics to getting replaced by another actor or not getting references, I'm done with all of it.

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

Olivia handed Cara the bowl of ice cream. "You finish it. Life would be so much easier if Malloy would go out onto the plains and let himself be eaten by a bear.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!

There are not many who do leave on their own terms. I certainly didn't.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Mugabe's resignation fascinates because the fall of tyrants is always a family story, decline of the father, writ large. What a strange creature he is.

I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

After all is said and done," said the Dormouse, "there is nothing to be done. Or said.

you'll understand when you're older. Or anyway not understanding will become second nature, and it won't matter.

There is always after the death of anyone a kind of stupefaction; so difficult is it to grasp this advent of nothingness and to resign ourselves to believe in it.

Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even her satin shoes, whose soles had been yellowed by the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart was like them: contact with wealth had laid something over it that would not be wiped away.

Death always brings with it a kind of stupefaction, so difficult is it for the human mind to realize and resign itself to the blank and utter nothingness.

Emma grew thinner, her cheeks paler, her face longer. With her black hair, her large eyes, her aquiline nose, her birdlike walk, and always silent now, did she not seem to be passing through life scarcely touching it, and to bear on her brow the vague impress of some divine destiny? She was so sad and so calm, at once so gentle and so reserved, that near her one felt oneself seized by an icy charm, as we shudder in churches at the perfume of the flowers mingling with the cold of the marble.

Je ne les ai pas ! répondit Rodolphe avec ce calme parfait dont se recouvrent comme d'un bouclier les colères résignées.