Quotes About Resignation

Possibly this is one more version of disappearing into your life, the way career telephone company bigwigs, overdutiful parents and owners of wholesale lumber companies are said to do and never know it. You simply reach a point at which everything looks the same but nothing matters much. There's no evidence you're dead, but you act that way.

In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.

That's your solution?' asked Wardani in a small, cold voice. 'Take drugs and watch it all slide out of view?' 'Do you have a better idea?' She turned away.

She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else...

You see—I hope you never get there yourself—but some of us get to the point in life where we realise that nothing matters. Nothing fucking matters.

Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

That next week was one of the loneliest of my life. There seemed nothing left to look forward to.

Point One. I'm not a go-between. Whatever you say stays in thisroom and it doesn't get leaked back. Point Two. I'm not a shrink, I'm not some kind of advice centre, I don't even much like listening to other people's woes. [...] Point Three. I'm just an old soak whose life hasn't worked out and who lieves alone with her dogs. So I'm not an authority on anything.

To je ono Å¡to ne valja na ovom svetu, pomislila je. Digli smo ruke od osmatranja.

Destiny. It was just a grand term for something you could do nothing about.

Olmamas?na raz?y?m. Oluyormu? gibi olmas?n yeter.

All you could do was wait for death to make you inconsequential. Frank

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes to its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off.

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.