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.
Stichwörter: pessimism poetry poems resignation
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
Huey P. NewtonStichwörter: politics war fate anarchy revolution resignation revolutionaries
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
Mark TwainStichwörter: hell resignation
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
Stephen KingStichwörter: death tiredness resignation peter-mcvries
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam ChomskyStichwörter: apathy consumerism control complacency resignation learned-helplessness the-powers-that-be
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.
Arthur SchopenhauerStichwörter: tragedy satisfaction resignation sublime
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.
David WroblewskiStichwörter: change struggle resignation willfullness rivers
What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.
Rainer Maria RilkeStichwörter: acceptance resignation
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
Stichwörter: acceptance poetry loss death mourning poem grief resignation resistance
We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
Graham GreeneStichwörter: life death resignation
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