Quotes About Resignation

But after much thought, I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing more difficult in this world than to surrender completely. This is one of man's greatest sorrows.

I realize now that it was a certain apathy, rather than peace, that turned my acts and my desires to ash.

Pero esos días de fuerte y condenado verano me insuflan la necesidad de la renuncia. Renuncio a tener un significado, y entonces un dulce y doloroso quebranto se apodera de mí.

E eu não aguento a resignação. Ah, como devoro com fome e prazer a revolta.

Em mim um sentimento de grande espera havia crescido, e uma resignação surpreendida: é que nesta espera atenta eu reconhecia todas as minhas esperas anteriores, eu reconhecia a atenção de que também antes vivera, a atenção que nunca me abandona e que em última análise talvez seja a coisa mais colada à minha vida – quem sabe aquela atenção era a minha própria vida.

La muerte pide resignación, la ausencia no.

La extrañaba incluso más que a Ana, tal vez porque echar de menos a alguien vivo tiene más sentido que hacerlo con un muerto. La muerte pide resignación, la ausencia no.

Psychologically, accidia manifests as a loss of interiority, a refusal to see, and a resistance to change. The combination of loss of interiority and the resigned and abnegated character that goes along with it, results in a syndrome of a good-hearted, comfortable "earthiness" that may be exaggerated to the point of literalness and narrowness.

As I have said, I am comparatively speaking calm, do not wish for anything, or expect anything, am resigned in fact to that kind of spiritual paralysis until the time comes when bodily paralysis carries me off, as it carried off my father.

Well, ' he says, 'if you're dead, Peterborough is as good a place as any.

Since no one loves me, I'll go.

Is he going to- will he live?" "No," said Gavriel. "No chance of that. He wants to die, so he will. But not tonight and not because of me." "Oh," Tana said. "So he's okay?

it cost me something to be the way I am. But I do not know what. And I don't know if I can get it back. I don't even know if I want it.

En se résignant, le malheureux consomme son malheur.

La resignación es un suicidio cotidiano.

Somehow she knew there would be an unspoken truce on their unspoken battle over God knew what when they were old. They could both surrender to their innate grumpiness. It was going to be a lovely relief.

He couldn't understand Rachel's need to wonder what could have been, rather than just accepting that it never would be.

Full-time work caused a kind of claustrophobic terror to build and build within her chest until one day there was a humiliating emotional spillage that resulted in her termination or resignation

No surprise you're in pain, no surprise you're dead. You're old. That's what is meant to happen. We don't care that you forget you're old. We know you're old.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters

I long ago gave up defending humanity. It's beyond me on most days to defend myself.

I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for the fine if unattainable than sulking in passive, cynical resignation that hell is other people you're related to.

But 'contentment'. Is that happiness? Or is that only resignation wearing a funny hat?

I do not like vaudeville, but what can I do? It likes me.