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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

~ Henry David Thoreau

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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

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We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

~ Graham Greene

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Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be. The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down

~ Stephen King

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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 que se derrumba sobre uno desde un séptimo piso

~ Mario Benedetti

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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.

~ Ian Mcewan

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Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

~ Amit Kalantri

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Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.

~ W.b. Yeats

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So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...

~ Stanisław Lem

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The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

~ Huey P. Newton

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A person could stop a specific thing, but they couldn’t stop change in general. Rivers can’t run backward. Yet, he felt there must be an alternative, neither willfulness nor resignation. He couldn’t put words to it. All he knew was, neither of them had changed their minds and neither of them could find anything more to say.

~ David Wroblewski

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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

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Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

~ Kohta Hirano

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What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit.

~ Wallace Stegner

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To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.

~ Donald Miller

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Ashtadukht slumped and let thenightingale’s song flood her brain. She knew that empty tone, that defeatedoutlook; she knew it intimately. Even now, it burned in her as limply as asnuffed flame. Passion burned with unchecked verve, devoured its fuel, andsputtered out. Despair required no upkeep; it heaped barely-glowing coals inthe back of your mind and fuelled itself.

~ Darrell Drake

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I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk.

~ Steven Magee

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Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!

~ Anne Rice

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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

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One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards

~ Oche Otorkpa

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For too long I have played on the stage of lucidity, and I have lost. Now I need to accustom my eyes to the falling darkness. I need to contemplate the natural slumber of all things, which the light calls forth, yet also causes to tire. Life must begin in darkness. Its powers of germination lie hidden. Every day has its night, every light has its shadow.I cannot be asked to accept these shadows gladly. It is enough that I accept them.

~ Mihail Sebastian

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There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.

~ Melika Dannese Lux

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My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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I took a heavenly ride through our silenceI knew the moment had arrivedFor killing the past and coming back to life.

~ Pink Floyd

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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

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So many amazing opportunities arise when a chapter of our life ends. When we resign from a job that we weren't happy in, or even get fired, it's actually a blessing because a better experience is waiting to happen. It's all about perspective.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

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Have to wait my turn.Have to follow the rules.Have to smile like I agree.Have toHave toHave toHave toChoose him.

~ Holly Bodger

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I mean that I discovered there's a difference between acceptance and reignation - one is positive, the other is negative. Acceptance opens the door of hope wide, while resignation slams it shut. One says God is good and loves us, and the other says He is harsh and doesn't care. Abraham chose to 'accept' God's will, knowing full well that God loved him and not only wanted the best for him, but knew exactly what that 'best' would be. Neither is easy when it means relinquishing the desires of our heart, but 'acceptance' promises that God will bless our obedience with a greater good. 'Resignation,' however, can sever our relationship with God, which leaves us on our own, resulting in darkness and despair.

~ Julie Lessman

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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

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What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke Acceptance Resignation

I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries. I cannot conceive how women's colleges, inviting and encouraging women to enter professions can be justly founded or maintained denying such a prin

~ Harriet Brooks

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Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage

~ Gyan Nagpal

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All right, then, I'll go to hell.

~ Mark Twain

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She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

~ Michael Cunningham

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Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.

~ Melika Dannese Lux

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Despair? I don't despair. I have never once in my life despaired anything. I make a point not to go further than resignation.

~ Megan Derr

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But she knew, though very vaguely, that she was crying, because hope hurts terribly when it breaks through the resignation in which you have lived for days.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin Despair Hope Resignation

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

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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

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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.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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