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Quotes About Resignation

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.
~ Nora Ephron
I have done for my country and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.
~ Thomas Jefferson
By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next
~ William Shakespeare
The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
~ Sophie Swetchine
Severn - I - lift me up - I am dying - I shall die easy; don't be frightened - be firm, and thank God it has come.
~ John Keats
So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
~ Gustav Stresemann
I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.
~ Annie Lennox
We're not meant for happiness, you and I.
~ Daphne du Maurier
All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness
~ Orhan Pamuk, Snow
Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.
~ Philip Gourevitch
When you stop hoping you start settling.
~ Valorie Burton
when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same.
~ John F. Kennedy
When you can see the end of things even in their beginnings, there's no more hope, unless you want to pretend, or forget, or get drunk or something.
~ Ayi Kwei Armah
Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.
~ Groucho Marx
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
~ Robert Frost
But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.
~ Mel Smith
We must do without hope.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I hope you find what you're looking for," Micah said. "I've already stopped looking," Damon said quietly. "It's kind of hard to look for something you've stopped believing in.
~ Maya Banks
To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.
~ Anna Kavan
No hope no action.
~ Peter Levi
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.
~ Kohta Hirano