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Resigned Quotes

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Matthew Quick
“I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do.
I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.”
Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

Stephen        King
“Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.”
stephen king, The Green Mile

Henry James
“Satisfied to die in the flower of her youth?"

"Well, at peace with you."

"Oh, 'peace'!" he murmured with his eyes on the fire.

"The peace of having loved."

He raised his eyes to her. "Is that peace?"

"Of having been loved," she went on. "That is. Of having," she wound up, "realised her passion. She wanted nothing more. She had had all she wanted.”
Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

Iris Murdoch
“And she looked at her life and seemed to understand it and to grieve over it as if it were already over.”
Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

Ehsan Sehgal
“Sure, I have resigned from specific love affairs since such a stage of life that one can neither afford nor carry out its obligations; consequently, it may earn significant risks of self-isolation.”
Ehsan Sehgal

“But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.”
Amor Towles;