The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.