Quotes about Resignation

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The true philosopher is a man who says "All right," and goes to sleep in his armchair. — P.G. Wodehouse, Mike at Wrykyn
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them? — W. Somerset Maugham
We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. — Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. Ther — Stephen King, The Long Walk
La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que la puntual maceta q — Mario Benedetti, La muerte y otras sorpresas
He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered e-mails — Ian McEwan, Solar
Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Me — W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
I have produced no children of my own and my husband is dead," she replied, an acid tone in her voice. "Thus I am more t — Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose me — Stanisław Lem, Solaris
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. — Huey P. Newton
A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt — David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and now — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their — Kohta Hirano
What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die. — Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Ashtadukht slumped and let thenightingale’s song flood her brain. She knew that empty tone, that defeatedoutlook; she kn — Darrell Drake, A Star-Reckoner's Lot
I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to — Steven Magee
Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is s — Anne Rice