Top 100 Quotes About Resignation
#1. It seems that nothing ever gets to going good till there's a few resignations
Kin Hubbard
#2. A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#3. The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.' We repeated the holy sentences of resignation; but it was not resignation, it was despair that subdued the violence of our grief.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#4. Resignation is to equate with the hope to give up; a possible renewal process is initiated, which do things clean at its roots.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#5. Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
Emily Bronte
#6. I don't believe for one moment that I killed him [ ... ] But if I didn't, somebody else did. I must appoint myself Investigator. I must catch this malefactor, this pig. And if at any time it looks as if I am going to catch myself, I can always accept my resignation.
Pamela Branch
#7. Indeed, one had the impression that even for the sufferers the frantic terror of the early phase had passed, and there was a sort of mournful resignation in their present attitude toward the disease.
Albert Camus
#8. To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.
Donald Miller
#9. We often do more good by our sympathy than by our labors. A man may lose position, influence, wealth, and even health, and yet live on in comfort, if with resignation; but there is one thing without which life becomes a burden
that is human sympathy.
Frederic Farrar
#10. But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.
Dean Koontz
#11. I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.
Najib Mikati
#12. It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.
William James
#14. Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
Sophie Swetchine
#15. Have to wait my turn.
Have to follow the rules.
Have to smile like I agree.
Have to
Have to
Have to
Have to
Choose him.
Holly Bodger
#16. I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.
Anthony Weiner
#17. He had no choice. None at all. His kind rarely did.
His shoulders slumped in resignation. He hung his head. His will, his pride, gone.
Evangeline Collins
#18. It was the very discomfort, the blows, the cold, the thirst that kept us aloft in the void of bottomless despair, both during the journey and after. It was not the will to live, nor a conscious resignation; for few are the men capable of such resolution, and we were but a common sample of humanity.
Primo Levi
#19. Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.
Michael Jeffery
#20. Resignation to inevitable evils is the evil duty of us all; the
Jane Austen
#21. When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.
Dale Carnegie
#22. Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle.
Eugene O'Neill
#23. A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
David R. Brower
#24. When we receive with an entire and perfect resignation the afflictions which God sends us they become for us favors and benefits; because conformity to the will of God is a gain far superior to all temporal advantages.
Vincent De Paul
#25. Typical Chilean characteristics, such as sobriety, a horror of ostentation, of standing out over others or attracting attention, generosity, a tendency to compromise rather than confront, a legalistic mentality, respect for authority, resignation to bureaucracy, enthusiasm for political argument,
Isabel Allende
#26. The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.
William Hazlitt
#27. 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.
Lionel Shriver
#28. I have ... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.
Rafik Hariri
#29. What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#30. So what happened?" Mom asks; there's a tone of resignation, the sound of a parent who has tried really hard for a long time and realizes that the end of the tunnel doesn't have a light so much as a black hole.
Mindy McGinnis
#31. Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.
Hosea Ballou
#33. The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life.
Pierre Salinger
#34. The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
Billy Collins
#35. The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
Gustav Stresemann
#37. How does it happen that in life as in literature, rebellion, however pure, has something false about it, whereas resignation, however tainted with listlessness, always gives the impression of authenticity
Emil Cioran
#38. I could almost see the resignation on the old man's face. I knew he would draw a breath and sigh that I insisted on stacking all my pain in one pile, facing it all at once."
p. 480 Fitz about Chade
Robin Hobb
#39. I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.
D.H. Lawrence
#40. Pain reconciles one to existence. Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#41. In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial.
Paul Goodman
#42. Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
Victoria Woodhull
#43. Christmas was over. It had passed, as usual, in a fever of generosities, and left an aftertaste of swindle in its wake. "Anticippointment" Pamela said ... and there was in that invented word all the regret and resignation that forty-seven years of Christmases had built up in her.
David Leavitt
#44. Death rode the sky, alright," Adrian summarized of that day, in a sad tone of resignation that was repeated in the voice of one survivor after another. "I can close my eyes right now and see that tornado picking up the old Ross place, and just blowing it up.
Angela Mason
#45. Pg.9 In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.
Fernando Pessoa
#46. The normal seething mass of emotion that never seemed to be directed at me was still there. But the elements that were directed towards me contained humor, disbelief, fondness, resignation, possessiveness and a weird jumbled mass that I couldn't identify - but it wasn't negative.
Anne Zoelle
#47. Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.
Thiruvalluvar
#48. Whate'er my doom;
It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me
The boon of resignation.
Woodrow Wilson
#49. The paradise offered by the culture industry is the same old drudgery. Both escape and elopement are pre-designed to lead back to the starting point. Pleasure promotes the resignation which it ought to help to forget.
Theodor W. Adorno
#50. The main theme remains constant: man owes it to himself to reject despair; better to rely on miracles than opt for resignation. By changing himself, man can change the world.
Elie Wiesel
#51. What did you do?" Scapegrace asked.
A series of expressions flitted across Clarabelle's face. First, there was indignation, then there was resignation, followed by hope, chased by confusion, and finally knocked down and sat upon by innocence. "Nothing.
Derek Landy
#52. Eventually she tires of directing her speech outwards and closes her mouth in apparent resignation. A new silence comes to overlay the silence that is already there.
Haruki Murakami
#53. Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Joseph Conrad
#54. She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep.
Victor Hugo
#55. I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life.
Pink Floyd
#56. To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim.
Reza Negarestani
#57. As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
William Faulkner
#59. All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#60. Enemies." "What Christian resignation!" "As for hating you, of all people! Why ... I consider you adorable. I envy Leandre every day of my life. I have seriously thought of setting him to play Scaramouche, and playing lovers myself.
Rafael Sabatini
#62. I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.
Jane Austen
#63. Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness.
Rick Warren
#65. Put a good bunch of grapes under the winepress, and a delicious juice will come out. Under the winepress of the cross, our soul produces a juice that feeds and strengthens us. When we haven't got any crosses, we are dry. If we carry them with resignation, what happiness, what sweetness we feel!
John Vianney
#66. Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?
Jane Austen
#67. Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!
Anne Rice
#68. Someone's always calling for my resignation. It's nothing new. It's something that's been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus. So he can add his voice to the chorus of others whether it's gay activists or now a New Testament professor.
Alan Chambers
#69. We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. Somerset Maugham
#70. If {Death} comes for you?" he said. "Would you be so sanguine then?"
She laughed and the pensiveness was gone. "No indeed. I will curse the stars and go down fighting. But it will still have been a wonderful thing, to cross the mist.
Kij Johnson
#71. Resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.
Caitlin Thomas
#72. There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
Theodore Dalrymple
#73. Powerlessness does not mean the weakness of resignation or the passivity of an 'anything goes'. Powerlessness does not mean inability ,not having the capacity. Powerlessness means rather leaving power behind , something as disempowering.
Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback
#74. I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.
Thomas Paine
#75. The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation.
C.S. Lewis
#76. When he had made the payment for sin that God's people had needed all along, he said, "It is finished" and bowed his head, not in resignation, but in victory (John
Chris Bruno
#77. But if I put the logistics aside and focused on what I knew - how I felt - it was hopeless. There was only resignation, and fear. Put the two together and you had a recipe for self-destruction.
Vikki Wakefield
#78. It seemed to her there was a peacefulness about him that came with resignation, with the extinction of that last hope, like a perfect humility undistracted by the possible, the unrealized, the yet to be determined.
Marilynne Robinson
#79. You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should you have your pride in the morning and your resignation in the evening?
Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so tender! We are all of us pretty fine asses and asseses of burden!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.
William Arthur Ward
#81. Since turning in his resignation, he'd been wondering what he might do next. Suddenly his path seemed clear. He would become an alcoholic. He
Richard Russo
#82. A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on me
a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly
Charlotte Bronte
#83. As her fate, she accepted the world of ice, shining, shimmering, dead; she resigned herself to the triumph of glaciers and the death of the world.
Anna Kavan
#84. He wore an air of perpetual resignation around him like a fashion accessory.
B.V. Lawson
#85. Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.
Edwin Meese
#86. We live in the hope that life will be different. Just a little more substance perhaps in the intrinsic frailty of the days. Such resignation frightens me. Between gunshots I get drunk. In secret, all knowledge becomes anxiety.
Floriano Martins
#87. All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
#88. Thou content to leave thy prayer in his hands, who knows when to give, and how to give, and what to give, and what to withhold. So pleading, earnestly, importunately, yet with humility and resignation, thou shalt surely prevail.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#89. The acknowledgement of death rises and subsides in us like waves that must be ridden out. We keep our heads above this dangerous water to avoid being submerged in fear, or in hopeless resignation.
Brenda Walker
#90. A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
Salmon P. Chase
#91. Catherine Marshall writes, "Resignation is barren of faith in the love of God ... . Resignation lies down quietly in the dust of a universe from which God seems to have fled, and the door of Hope swings shut."2
Richard J. Foster
#92. Making sense of everything is not an obligation or even a possibility. Acceptance of mystery is an act not of resignation but humility. - David Wolpe
Lois Tverberg
#93. The mass of man lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation, is confirmed desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. Washington is a resigning town. Nothing else holds the special excitement of a rumored resignation.
George P. Bush
#95. For unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Francoise Sagan
#96. Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
Gustav Heinemann
#97. While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Oliver Goldsmith
#98. Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections
Vladimir Putin
#99. I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.
Paulo Coelho
#100. The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying: "Perhaps it's all for the best," when they are perfectly dead sure it's not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia. I'm for a more militant religion!
Jean Webster
