Quotes About Resignation

She's smart and a hard worker." "And?" "A little on the crazy side." Cece inhaled with resignation. "I was overjoyed when the district elected a woman, but Rebecca's half a bubble off plumb.

Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.

Spare me," he begged. "I do not want to die." "Few do. Yet all men die, regardless.

I wait with sullen resignation," said Tuf, unmoving.

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

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.

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.

I can feel myself giving up over time. Getting used to it. Old age is getting used to things.

How I envy you your ability to be inarticulate in the face of Fate.

Benedict's resignation was a selfless act since he had come to realize he was not capable of leading the modern church and making the tough decisions that were needed. "It wasn't one thing, but a whole combination of them," concluded Paolo Rodari, Il Foglio's veteran Vatican reporter. Vatileaks, said Rodari, "was a constant drumbeat on the Pope."33

the surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve." Bethia as an old woman about to die p 257

I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just don't have happy endings.

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.

Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go to the place from which I shall not return.

Not my will, but thine, be done.

Sve je u meni mrtvo; tako mi je dobro. Ne dopire do mene zvuk, umro mi je ocinji vid. Sve je ostalo za velikom kapijom koja se zatvorila muklo za mnom. Izgubio sam sve i nisam vise covjek nego nemirna besana misao koja je potonula i pricutala se na dubokom dnu, a nada mnom su kao neprozirne zelene mase voda, mir, daljina i zaborav.

?esto sjedim sate i sate i gledam u hladne jesenje boje. Mir sudbine koja se više ne da promijeniti ledi mi se na duši i licu. Sve je u meni mrtvo; tako mi je dobro. Ne dopire do mene zvuk, umro mi je o?inji vid. Sve je ostalo za velikom kapijom koja se zatvorila muklo za mnom. Izgubio sam sve i nisam više ?ovjek nego nemirna besana misao koja je potonula i pri?utala se na dubokom dnu, a nada mnom su kao neprozirne zelene mase voda, mir, daljina i zaborav

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

Don't ask. We're all but done for in any case, taking that Fiona couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo, and Paddy and Maureen both cheat like tinkers at a fair. What are you talking about? Why would anybody hit a cow with a banjo? He only smiled. The point is, Fiona couldn't so we'll be done soon enough.

And what is the upshot of this lack of heat, this lack of heart? The upshot is that he is sitting alone on a Sunday afternoon in an upstairs room in a house in the depths of the Berkshire countryside, with crows cawing in the fields and a grey mist hanging overhead, playing chess with himself, growing old, waiting for evening to fall so that he can with a good conscience fry his sausages and bread for supper.

Lo saben todo, hasta los más pequeños detalles, y sin embargo se resignan.