Resignation

Resignation is a psychological state of uncomplaining, utter frustration.

Quotes

 * Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor; And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away.
 * William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book V. Last lines.


 * Bends to the grave with unperceived decay, While resignation gently slopes the way And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
 * Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 110.


 * That's best Which God sends. 'Twas His will: it is mine.
 * Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part II, Canto VI, Stanza 29.


 * The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares,  And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, If a star fell to set their thatch on flame.
 * Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Poem (October, 1736).


 * Thus ready for the way of life or death, I wait the sharpest blow.
 * William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act I, scene 1, line 54.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 668.


 * To be resign'd when ills betide, Patient when favours are denied, And pleased with favours given;— Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part, This is that incense of the heart  Whose fragrance smells to heaven.
 * Nathaniel Cotton, The Fireside, Stanza 11.


 * Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest.
 * Epictetus, Discourses, Book II, Chapter XVI.


 * To will what God doth will, that is the only science That gives us any rest.
 * François de Malherbe, Consolation, Stanza 7. Longfellow's translation.


 * Placato possum non miser esse deo.
 * If God be appeased, I can not be wretched.
 * Ovid, Tristium, III, 40.


 * Unum est levamentum malorum pati et necessitatibus suis obsequi.
 * One alleviation in misfortune is to endure and submit to necessity.
 * Seneca the Younger, De Ira, III, 16.


 * Placeat homini quidquid deo placuit.
 * Let that please man which has pleased God.
 * Seneca the Younger, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, LXXIV.


 * It seem'd so hard at first, mother, to leave the blessed sun, And now it seems as hard to stay—and yet His will be done! But still I think it can't be long before I find release; And that good man, the clergyman, has told me words of peace.
 * Alfred Tennyson, The May-Queen, conclusion, Stanza 3.