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.