Resignation Quotes

Optimism is cowardice.

I'll tell you what the coloreds want. It's three things: first, a tight pussy; second, loose shoes; and third, a warm place to shit.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them.

I can't be happy with drawing or losing a match. It actually makes me really sad when that happens.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

I don't mind what happens.

What did the President know and when did he know it?

O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.

Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just accept the fact. Complaint occurs when we refuse to accept that things are wrong and we do something about it, even if that something is simply articulating our unease.

I was not desirous of shrinking of any duty, nor of failing in the least to do as I was commanded, but it was the first time in my life that I desired the grave.

What you cannot control, you must accept.

In the end they'll judge me anyway, so whatever.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

We don't make the rules. We just play by them.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.