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Quotes About Surrender

Dios ciega al que quiere perder.
~ Elena Garro
Te fuiste sin llevarte nada, entregaste la casa a un hostelero sin escrúpulos. Abandonaste todo y todo se ha perdido. -Nada se ha perdido si nos hemos encontrado.-Leonora tiembla pero Max no la escucha.
~ Elena Poniatowska
she must wait, till someone takes her, but afterwards, and then let herself be taken, but only afterwards. because if, like you, she lets herself be taken before, then she can count herself lucky afterwards, if anyone takes her at all.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
it is not enough therefore, simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
Stop thinking. From the moment one enters the airport, one is subject to a host of procedures and mechanisms designed to get one from point A to point B. Stop thinking and be the cargo.
~ Antoine Wilson
Desde la debilidad se cede y desde la fortaleza se concede.
~ Antoni Bolinches
Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
~ Antonin Artaud
I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
~ Antonin Artaud
Estoy entrgado a la nada. I am delivered up to nothingness.
~ Antonio Di Benedetto
Se le instaló el desamparo en la voluntad.
~ Antonio Di Benedetto
Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.
~ Antonio Porchia
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
~ Antonio Porchia
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
~ Antonio Porchia
Ne feledjék el – mondta [Patton] nekik [a katonáinak] egy alkalommal –, soha egyetlen fattyú sem nyert háborút azzal, hogy meghalt a hazájáért. Csak úgy gyÅ'znek, ha elérik, hogy a másik rohadék haljon meg az Å' hazájáért!
~ Antony Beevor
A person is so helpless in the hands of own luck in life that even dream, desires and demands are also decided by his/her destiny.
~ Anuj Somany
He was all sin and mystery, and Miranda feared the pleasures he offered as she feared the fires of hell. Yet when she succumbed at last, it was not because her body was weak but because her mind was curious.
~ Anya Seton
I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.
~ Anya Seton
My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.
~ Arianna Huffington
Montaigne: "To practice death is to practice freedom.71 A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave." Being a slave to our job and our status in the world makes it much harder to put our day behind us and surrender to sleep.
~ Arianna Huffington
Men jeg ville ikke spise, jeg kunne ikke heller – håndtaket var blitt for stort å bære, det styrte dagene mine fremdeles, styrte timene og ukene – alt bestemte dette håndtaket.
~ Arild Nyquist
When you abandon everything you can believe in, you're abandoning yourself. As if you've never existed. But that takes a long time. If you're no longer in control of your own life, can you at least be in control of its end?
~ Arnošt Lustig
From putting my career before the people in my life, deliver me. From distracting myself from life with work, deliver me. From my drive to be superior to others, deliver me. From the allure of the world's empty promises, deliver me. From my feelings of professional superiority, deliver me. From allowing my pride to supplant my love, deliver me. From the pains of withdrawing from my addiction, deliver me. From the dread of falling into decline and being forgotten, deliver me.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I had to quit everything. I had to give it all for music.
~ Gunna