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Quotes About Resignation

Thanks anyway,' Vanderdecker repeated, and wandered off to have a stare at the sea. It was his equivalent to beating his head repeatedly against a wall.
~ Tom Holt
After fifteen years I have decided to resign my membership of the Dennis The Menace Fanclub. It brought me no benefits worth mentioning.
~ Tony Benn
You weren't listening. I asked you why you decided to quit." Leaphorn had said nothing for a while. "Just tired." Thatcher had shaken his head. "You're going to miss it." "No, you get older. Or wiser. You realize it doesn't really make any difference.
~ Tony Hillerman
Hun gav sig omsider til at elske verden, men kun fordi den skulle udslettes sammen med hende.
~ Tove Ditlevsen
I think I will drink my hemlock now....
~ Unknown
BARBARA: You're never coming back to me, are you, Bill? BILL: Never say never, but . . . BARBARA: But no. BILL: But no.
~ Tracy Letts
I'm fresh out of fucks to give.
~ Tucker Max
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~ Tui T. Sutherland
I'm tired of fighting … I can't fight any more." Those were his last words.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
If she could only give up, relax, and live in the perfect knowledge that there was no hope.
~ Paul Bowles
When I was 19 and I had lots of hope. Now, of course, I have none whatever. One wouldn't. One doesn't. I have a hope for a painless death. That's all that bothers me. Paul Bowles to Richard de Combray
~ Paul Bowles
The telemarketers who called her up now seemed either desperate or resigned to the point of a mindless drone, until Judith, who had time on her hands and ice in her heart, engaged them in dark conversations that always got her removed from their lists.
~ Unknown
I heard them complain sometimes, but it was the ineffectual bitching of people who didn't expect anything about their situation to ever change, and who wouldn't know what to do with themselves if it did.
~ Paul Neilan
Why not simply surrender to one's doom, since one was so clearly, so spectacularly, doomed?
~ Unknown
She wanted to ask, How long? A year? Less more? Any time? But she had lived long enough to know that you did not ask questions to which there were no answers and which you didn't want answered.
~ Paul Scott
Bunt was disgustedly drinking a pint of beer, eyeing the table with resentment, the dishes of sticky pork and soggy and wilted lettuce, the black vegetables, the gray broth, the purple meat. On one dish of yellow meat was a severed chicken's head, its eyes blinded, its scalloped comb torn like a red rag.
~ Paul Theroux
I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.
~ Paulo Coelho
They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.
~ Paulo Coelho
I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.
~ Paulo Coelho
and when the hour is come that has been set for each of us before ever we can walk or talk, then what need of mourning?
~ Pearl S. Buck
Shikataganai, she added. It can't be helped.
~ Peggy Orenstein
she had stopped hoping to meet
~ Danielle Steel
If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.
~ Darren Shan
Necross: The wound! It will prove fatal -- but -- I am not worried! Cerebus: Really? Why not? Necross: Because that means I'll be dead in a few minutes . . . OOPS . . . better make that a few . . . seconds . . .
~ Dave Sim