{"quotes":[{"text":"Have to wait my turn.Have to follow the rules.Have to smile like I agree.Have toHave toHave toHave toChoose him.","author":"Holly Bodger","tags":["choice","rebellion","resignation","sacrifice"],"id":20231,"author_id":"Holly+Bodger"},{"text":"She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.","author":"Michael Cunningham","tags":["desperation","ennui","exciting-life","fantasy-life","life-worth-living","regret","resignation"],"id":20575,"author_id":"Michael+Cunningham"},{"text":"What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["resignation","satisfaction","sublime","tragedy"],"id":26000,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"},{"text":"Even if the powers destroy us,' he said, 'who are we, to condemn them? As well might a fleeting word judge the speaker that forms it. Perhaps they use us for their own high ends, use our strength and our weakness, our joy and our pain, in some theme inconceivable to us, and excellent.' But I protested, 'What theme could justify such waste, such futility? And how can we help judging; and how otherwise can we judge than by the light of our own hearts, by which we judge ourselves? It would be base to praise the Star Maker, knowing that he was too insensitive to care about the fate of his worlds.' Bvalltu was silent in his mind for a moment. Then he looked up, searching among the smoke-clouds for a daytime star. And then he said to me in his mind, 'If he saved all the worlds, but tormented just one man, would you forgive him? Or if he was a little harsh only to one stupid child? What has our pain to do with it, or our failure? Star Maker! It is a good word, though we can have no notion of its meaning. Oh, Star Maker, even if you destroy me, I must praise you. Even if you torture my dearest. Even if you torment and waste all your lovely worlds, the little figments of your imagination, yet I must praise you. For if you do so, it must be right. In me it would be wrong, but in you it must be right.","author":"Olaf Stapledon","tags":["despair","resignation","theodicy"],"id":32340,"author_id":"Olaf+Stapledon"},{"text":"What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["acceptance","resignation"],"id":32691,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"Despair? I don't despair. I have never once in my life despaired anything. I make a point not to go further than resignation.","author":"Megan Derr","tags":["despair","resignation"],"id":40923,"author_id":"Megan+Derr"},{"text":"Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be.' The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness 'And I think... When I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["death","peter-mcvries","resignation","tiredness"],"id":52869,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","belief","decision","inspirational","pandora","resignation","will"],"id":68424,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.","author":"Owen Meredith","tags":["resignation"],"id":79071,"author_id":"Owen+Meredith"},{"text":"All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.","author":"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn","tags":["1968","gulag","history","pessimism","post-truth","prison","resignation","ruska-doronin"],"id":86640,"author_id":"Aleksandr+Solzhenitsyn"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}