96 Quotes About Resignation

Now, as he reviewed his past, he saw into what a deep rut he had sunk. The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else... There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level, and surveys the long windings of destiny.

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

Good-bye to the past, with its mysteries which would never be fully unfolded.

But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy.

Elle était calme et décidée, des allures de martyre. Il était furieux et empli de haine, un faux-air du Diable.

What you cannot lay to restMust therefore be laid asideFrom the poem "Moors Child" published in the poetry collection "Cats and Other Myths

Make him happy and he will make you happy. She tells herself this often.

But really, by this point, I think I had resigned myself to fate. No stupid movie would save me.

He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered e-mails, and in the hovel he called home there would still be shirts missing cuff buttons, a malfunctioning light in the hall, and unpaid bills, uncleared attics, dead flies, friends waiting for a reply and lovers he had not owned up to.