Resignation Quotes

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.

Things past redress are now with me past care

Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.

I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.

This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.

At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

In Europe public men do resign. But here it's a lost art. You have to impeach 'em.

Oh well, whatever, nevermind.

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.