Quotes About Resignation

The realization that I'd have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

I know any move I would make toward Darius, any act of recognition, would only result in punishment for him. So we just stare into each other's eyes. Darius, now a mute slave; me, now headed to death. What would we say, anyway? That we're sorry for the other's lot? That we ache for the other's pain?

I give up, sweetheart. Just answer the questions and try not to let the audience see how openly you despise them.

No. I will never get him back. So then dead is best.

Go on, shoot me. And he goes down with me and you win. Go on. I'm dead anyway. I always was, right? I just couldn't tell until now.

I´ve blown past Bitter and am already in the heart of Apathy.

I should have known then it wasn´t nothing , as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing , straightaway after the usual tears and denial.

I think, This will be the last horrible thing I have to go through, until I meet someone else and the whole travesty begins again . I myself bear a sign that reads DON´T DATE ME, I CHAIN-SMOKE, I´M BITTER, AND I INCLUDE GRABBY TODDLER, and this has dramatically decreased my social life. I have resigned myself to a lifetime of jalapeño poppers and cheap wine and Frasier reruns.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.

As the resignation letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister clearly implies, it was not the outcome I sought, but it is one that I accept without rancour, despite what might be described as the hard landing involved.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Resignation was the defining condition of Soviet life.

We are traveling down a path with no happy ending, and it's too late to turn around.

You were wrong, Gram, " I said softly, tone emotionless because I was resigned to the awful, lonely truth of it. "Love doesn't save our souls. It kills them.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

Still—there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

He was going to die, and he was seriously annoyed about that.

Better to be numb than plagued by longing for something that could never be.

Even now, she looked radiant to him. How ridiculous that he'd be romanticizing her in these final hours. What could have once been love was now the resignation of a heart long broken.

I'm too old to rage against the system. I just whine at it.

Good God—don't they teach you anything in those poor excuses for schools anymore?" Then he calms down, but only a little. "No, I suppose they wouldn't. History is written by the victors—and when there are no victors, it all winds up in corporate shredders." He looks out the window with the sad resignation of a man who knows he's too old to change the world.

As Ariadne led him to the massage tent, Rowan thought, In eight months I am going to die. So perhaps he could allow himself a little indulgence on the way.