Quotes on Resigning

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.