Quotes About Resignation

All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that is soaked.

She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep.

She wanted to say "Don't leave me," but she couldn't do it, not again. She was so tired of begging people to love her. Besides

Once you've decided to die, the plan gets easy

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

You can't fire me because I quit.

Morning Star log, Nov. 24. Ain't got nothing good to say. Seas still high. Black clouds out there and black clouds in my mind. To hell with this. To hell with everything.

And others were born to... what? To stand in the crowd and do nothing, try nothing, say nothing, and accept every serving of bitter nothing as their due?

You weaseled your way into my life, Simon Lewis, and I don't know how or why or even when but it happened, and I kind of hate it but I can't change it, and here it is

What is it?' she cried at herself. 'What is the matter with me? Am I too becoming odd? Is this what spinsterhood does to one?'.....she made for the door her mind seemed to accept the fact that she was entering a new kind of world, the world of spinsterhood, and she saw it as something that had to be faced, lived with, endured. But with the handle of the door gripped in her hand, she looked down at it as she thought bitterly, What a waste of life!

Maybe she doesn't want to understand things she doesn't think she can change anyway. Maybe sometimes you just have a couple of rotten choices. Like you can fail to comprehend the world you've got, or you can see it as this ugly, evil, dangerous place and not be able to do a damn thing about it.

Then, like anything else that can't be understood, that can't be influenced, we let it go by.

It struck me that she had been a pretty woman, once upon a time. Before she'd decided she didn't want to be anymore. Before she'd decided she didn't want to be anything to anybody.

Listen, girl, I came to tell you that life is stupid. It just pulls the same shit over and over. Sometimes you think you can make it come out different, but you can't. You're in a story and the body writing it is an asshole.

How could an unlearned youth such as White write with such wisdom and resignation, while I, brimful of philosophy and book learning, was unable to still my heart into patience?

Neen: je plicht doen, dat was alles wat er overbleef... En die plicht was: proberen het boek te voltooien, tegen beter weten in, want wie werd iets wijzer van wat ik opschreef? Maar áf moest het, vind ik zelf, áf... voordat ik voorgoed in de alkohol kopje onder zoude gaan en eindelijk de enige verlossing zoude vinden die bestond: de Dood...

Tengo que irme, me dije, ya he perdido demasiado tiempo entre los muertos, fingiéndome muerto, olvidándome de la ironía.

Mañana me esperaban otros caminos. Fáciles, ruidosos, comunes. La fe a medias, las falsas banderas. Me resignaría a ello, ¿qué otra cosa podía hacer? Puesto que la seducción de la nada era inútil, repugnándole al corazón por tantos indicios dejarse persuadir por ella. Y ni la infelicidad, con su amarga miel, me servía ya.

Não é preciso vigor nenhum para conquistar seja o que for», dizia ele, «tudo está podre e se rende, mas largar, saber deixar ir, isso é que conta.»

Lasciatemi così come una cosa posata in un angolo e dimenticata

He didn't protest much. Evidently he had a penchant for surrender.

see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation

Zur Resignation gehört Charakter.

Happy the man who dies before he prays for death.