#resignation

"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

"We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."

"Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe 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 everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity."