#resignation

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve. ↗

— Salmon P. Chase

#forethought #grave #man #minded #never

The death of JFK to the resignation of Richard Nixon marked a great turning point in American life. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#american life #death #great #jfk #life

The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded. ↗

— Frederick William Borden

#health #resignation #rumor #state #unfounded

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#bear #better #curse #denounce #freedom

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. (229) ↗

— David Wroblewski

#resignation #rivers #struggle #willfullness #change

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

— Graham Greene

#life #resignation #death

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#discouragement #giving-up #grief #hopelessness #resignation

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The 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 everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#poems #poetry #resignation #innocence

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

#kindred-spirits #olga-belododia #partners #realization #recognition

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

— Kohta Hirano

#anime #giving-up #hellsing #humanity #immortality