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Quotes About Resignation

Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.
~ Henry Laurens
Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.
~ Stephen Evans
No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Als ik niet meer zou kunnen vissen, zou ik een grote voorraad morfine aanleggen en diep het bos intrekken. Ik zou een afgelegen plek kiezen waar niemand ooit mijn lijk zou vinden en van waaruit ik een prachtig uitzicht zou hebben. Ik zou met mijn gezicht naar dat uitzicht gaan liggen - en mijn morfine nemen.
~ Jared Diamond
It was Spam, but everyone was too tired to complain.
~ Jasper Fforde
Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope
~ Jasper Fforde
Raça por mim tão amada, Desta feita morrerás!» Júpiter daí a nada Fez-se menos ferrabrás.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Yeryüzünde benim için her ÅŸey bitti. Burada bana art?k ne iyilik edebilirler ne de kötülük. Ne umaca??m ne de korkaca??m bir ÅŸey kald? bu dünyada; zavall? bahts?z bir ölümlü ve Tanr? kadar kayg?s?z, telaÅŸs?z olan ben, uçurumun en dibindeyim.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions … and without resignation either. He stares at death with passionate attention and this fascination liberates him. He experiences the "divine irresponsibility" of the condemned man.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
When a man hasn't the courage to kill himself wholesale, he must do so retail.' He would walk down to the water and say: 'Farewell to what I love most in the world...
~ Jean Paul Sartre
I no longer fight, I accept.
~ Jean Plaidy
Nothing left but hopelessness.' Say die and I will die. Say die and watch me die.
~ Jean Rhys
La mort m'eut semblé un moindre suicide
~ Unknown
I found that stealing and being beaten went together, and in some way made up a single condition, and that by fulfilling the part of that condition that depended on me, I could leave the care of the other part to my master. From this idea, I set out to steal more calmly than before. I said to myself, What will come of it in the end? I will be beaten. So be it: that's what I am made for
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
He yawned; he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various tried and proved rules of conduct had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, flat seriousness, stoicism--all the aids whereby a man may savor, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life... 'I have attained the age of reason.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more.
~ Johnny Paycheck
My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.
~ Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue
I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.
~ Greg Smith
A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.
~ Donna Rice
When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal? I am so over it.
~ Jessica Cutler
I'm not overconfident. It's just that I'm not caught up in that. What will be will be. The die is cast. I can't be anybody but me.
~ Wendy Williams