Quotes about Resignation
in touch with the erotic, I become less willing to accept the powerlessness, or those other supplied states of being which are not native to me, such as resignation, despair, self-effacement, depression, self-denial.
— Audre Lorde
Some speak much of the exquisite sweetness, and rest of soul, that is to be found in the exercise of a spirit of resignation to God, and humble submission to His will.
— Jonathan Edwards
This was hell then; it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.
— Graham Greene
nothing to hinder me. But that brief dream is over. I am resigned to my fate now, so I don't think I'll go out for fear I'll get unresigned again.
— LM Montgomery
I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.
— Ernest Hemingway
By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.' Damned fine, eh?
— Ernest Hemingway
If one must die, he thought, and clearly one must, I can die. But I hate it.
— Ernest Hemingway
A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm feeling miserable . . . There was no self-pity in his tone, no appeal for sympathy ? only the angry matter-of-factness of a Stoic who has finally grown sick of the long farce of impassibility and is resentfully blurting out the truth.
— Aldous Huxley
Another sigh came from the window-- quite a resigned sigh. 'She's life and hope and happiness, my whole world now.' He felt the quiver of a tear on his eyelid.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
— David Livingstone
Certain things need not be said, and there's nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what's about to happen.
— Alice Hoffman