Quotes About Resignation

When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some guys were born with that particular power and other guys weren't. I wasn't.

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.

You have to make the compromise: resign, stay out of the government, and you can say what you like... but no one has to do anything about it.

I ran out of steam and patience and so I quit. I really didn't want to make another record. I'd had it with the music business. I went home to England, bought a house and did nothing.

If I have not decided to step down, it does not mean that I do not want to step down but because I want to ensure that my resignation will not affect the constitution, which must be implemented properly. This means that the Pancasila ideology and the 1945 Constitution will continue to be implemented.

Oust me if you want, but if I stepped down, I would be admitting guilt.

For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey,This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd,Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

Would it have made a difference? This is the question we always ask after we have given up.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

Only catatonics and coma patients can persevere in a dignified withdrawal from life's rattle and hum.

There are enough fatalities of a mundane sort. Find a quiet place and wait for one of them to carry you off.

What a relief, what an unburdening to have closed the book on humankind.

He gazed for an hour upon the great clouds of pearl that hang forever upon the horizon of that sea, and extracted from their beauty a resignation that he did not permit his reason to examine. The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. The defeat of hope leads not to despair, but to resignation. The resignation of those who have had a grasp of hope retains hope's power.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

We can't always be unlucky in my experience. And so, my dear friend: courage, patience and resignation.

I know I can't make that throw. I'm taking myself out of the game.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

He himself has thinned out to the vanishing point of being only decisions once made that he can't do anything about ever after.

Every time he thought about it he became more convinced that there was nothing that was really true and even less in which to believe. So it was simpler not to care about anything, for in that way he was never disappointed.

La resignación es una de nuestras virtudes populares. Más que el brillo de la victoria nos conmueve la entereza ante la adversidad.

I am a man who believes nothing, hopes nothing, fears nothing, feels nothing. I am beyond the pale of humanity [...]

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

To see the city in black and white is to see it through the tarnish of history: the patina of what is old and faded and no longer matters to the rest of the world. Even the greatest Ottoman architecture has a humble simplicity that suggests an end-of-empire gloom, a pained submission to the diminishing European gaze and to an ancient poverty that must be endured like an incurable disease. It is resignation that nourishes Istanbul's inward-looking soul.