#resigned

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#because #bored #boring #call #days

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. ↗

— Voltaire

#born to be #devoured #eaten #eighty #flies

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bounds #cannot #guardian #hear #our

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#because #did #either #how #i

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#haven #held #i #i am #president

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#attic #being #being content #content #contented

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#going #happen #i #me #myself

It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#capable #carry #feelings #following #free