Resigned Quotes

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

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

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've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

Well, that was in 1995 when I resigned from my last academic job.