He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered e-mails, and in the hovel he called home there would still be shirts missing cuff buttons, a malfunctioning light in the hall, and unpaid bills, uncleared attics, dead flies, friends waiting for a reply and lovers he had not owned up to.
Ian McEwanStichwörter: procrastination death resignation
I've made peace with myself.
Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.
Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.
Stichwörter: inner-peace resignation mercenary
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Every morning I called Aeroflot to ask about my suitcase. "Oh, it's you," sighed the clerk. "Yes, I have your request right here. Address: Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy's house. When we find the suitcase we will send it to you. In the meantime, are you familiar with our Russian phrase *resignation of the soul*?
Elif BatumanStichwörter: plans russia resignation traveling russian dusha elif-batuman russian-soul
Sergei doesn’t yearn for love…he thirsts for domination, and now he has finally achieved it.
Melika Dannese HickStichwörter: resignation defeat hopelessness realization ilyse-charpentier melika-dannese-lux city-of-lights
Simplemente, hazte a la idea, me digo. En este caso, pensar no sirve de nada. Nada de todo esto está en tus manos. Lo veas como lo veas, no puedes resistirte. Se ha decidido en otra parte.
Haruki MurakamiStichwörter: resignation
I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation, fatality, and could only end one way now. The present was numbness, that could feel nothing. Like Novocaine needled into your heart. What was there in all the dimensions of time for me? ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER)
Cornell WoolrichStichwörter: life futility resignation numbness numb past-future
Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.
Melika Dannese HickStichwörter: bravery challenge defiance resignation weariness
When he resigned his boss thought he was asking for more money. 'No,' he said. 'I'm just going to try to be a full-time writer.' Oh, his boss said, you want a lot more money. 'No, really,' he said. 'This isn't a negotiation. I'm just giving you my thirty days' notice. Thirty-one days from now, I won't be coming in.' Hmm, his boss replied. I don't think we can give you as much money as that.
Salman RushdieStichwörter: money resignation raises
There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.
Melika Dannese HickStichwörter: cynicism trust understanding resignation recognition realization weariness soulmate world-weariness partners kindred-spirits zigmund-fertig olga-belododia
My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.
Richelle E. GoodrichStichwörter: weeping grief unhappiness resignation defeat hopelessness giving-up richelle discouragement richelle-goodrich
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