Quotes About Resignation

I don't think I can do this anymore.

The day when, as a young girl, in all the radiance of her beauty and all the triumph of her life, she suffered, at the cost of her heart and her sweet illusions, the disenchantment which falls on us so slowly and yet so quickly — for we try to postpone as long as possible our belief in evil, and it seems to come too soon — that day was a whole age of reflection, and it was also a day of religious thought and resignation.

This is a bad world; nor have I had cause to leave it with regret.

en vez de agotarme en una defensa angustiosa y a toda costa contra lo que sentía, como deben de haber hecho todos, y aún los marineros sin darse cuenta, acepté sencillamente esa muerte hipnótica, como si estuviese anulado ya.

Inés! Y como diez años antes, los sollozos redoblaron, y como entonces me respondió bajo sus brazos: —No, no…¡Es demasiado tarde!…

He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader.

T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead.

What is done is done; and the egg cracked cannot be cured.

too weary and dazed by unfinished sleep even to swear. There comes a degree of numbness in fatigue and exasperation which can be expressed only by a sullen silence.

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt

drunk enough on earth's liquors to relish the prospect of the knife.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

sick of it whatever it's called sick of the names I dedicate every pore to what's here

He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles.

Solving the problems of this world may be something I have to let go. I suppose there's a lot I will have to let go.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation, fatality, and could only end one way now. The present was numbness, that could feel nothing. Like Novocaine needled into your heart. What was there in all the dimensions of time for me? ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER)

I hung up, figuring that if this was the last three minutes of my life, I didn't want to spend them extraordinarily annoyed.

Y está triste como una silla abandonada en la mitad del patio azul Los pájaros la rodean Cae una aguja Las hojas resbalan sin tocarla Y está triste en mitad del patio con la mirada baja los pechos alicaídos dos palomas tardas Y un collar sin perro en la mano Como una silla ya vacía.

Kad nusinuodytum žiurknuodžiais, reikia prarasti bet koki? vilt? ir drauge visiškai pasiduoti savo mintims, tada jos užstoja vis? pasaul? ir žmogus ni?nieko neberegi, išskyrus savo likim?.

Perhaps it was inevitable that this quixotic boy should fall in love with Mary Kerr. She was so small and frail, so pathetic in her helplessness, and in her resignation to her fate. The boatman seemed a bully — the most despicable trait in the boy's eyes; sympathy for her came to him at their first meeting, a passionate pity that wrung his tender heart, and love followed with startling rapidity.

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

Look around," said Sean. "Everyone in this bar was born here. Most had plans to leave at one time or another, but then at some point they got caught in a snare, and like an animal, lacked the cunning to undo the clamp.