giving-up

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
c667214	Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.	true-love letting-go hearbreak forgiving giving-up loving mercy forgiveness	Jodi Picoult
0a77506	There is no failure except in no longer trying.	success inspirational giving-up failure	Elbert Hubbard
09e9848	"Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar. "How're you making it?" on may ask, running into them along the block, or in the bar. "Oh, I'm TV-ing it"; with the saddest, sweetest, most shamefaced of smiles, and from a great distance. This distance one is compelled to respect; anyone who has traveled so far will not easily be dragged again into the world. There are further retreats, of course, than the TV screen or the bar. There are those who are simply sitting on their stoops, "stoned," animated for a moment only, and hideously, by the approach of someone who may lend them the money for a "fix." Or by the approach of someone from whom they can purchase it, one of the shrewd ones, on the way to prison or just coming out."	giving-up apathy escapism	James Baldwin
3560c63	i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.	sadness giving-up	Khaled Hosseini
89a1ac1	So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.	giving-up mysteries failure	John Green
966a538	A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.	science humor inspirational giving-up	Anne McCaffrey
0c2c44f	This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.	giving-up	Virginia Woolf
6a6d0b1	It's hard to give up the being together with someone.	moving-on relationship friendship love moving giving-up	Lois Lowry
937c2bb	O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, -- 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! -- here's a cause For rupture; -- herein we must break with Life, Or be ourselves unworthy; here we are wronged, Maimed, spoiled for aspiration: farewell Life!' -- And so, as froward babes, we hide our eyes And think all ended. -- Then, Life calls to us In some transformed, apocryphal, new voice, Above us, or below us, or around . . Perhaps we name it Nature's voice, or Love's, Tricking ourselves, because we are more ashamed To own our compensations than our griefs: Still, Life's voice! -- still, we make our peace with Life.	life giving-up	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
abf11c0	I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I give up. Come and get me.	giving-up	Anne Lamott
51ceec6	Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It's not so much, what's the point? It's more like, what's the difference?	ground-floor suicide loss death life give-up unheard giving-up difference purpose point	Mitch Albom
ed0a0c1	It was me who had to carry myself over the finish line, and all I needed to remember when I felt like not trying was that that feeling wouldn't last forever.	strength not-trying temporary giving-up	Jennifer L. Armentrout
324b71e	"I feel I'm at the end of something -- everything is going to be different -- and terrible." "That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave." "There is one that will drown me."	metaphor the-end the-green-knight iris-murdoch giving-up dialogue resilience	Iris Murdoch
b50c6ba	Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.	the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch giving-up determined hopeless eyes	iris murdoch
b6df8ef	I have found that sometimes when a person gives up on 'humankind' they can often find trust and love in animal kind. Andre Chevalier	depression humanity trust love trust-issues giving-up	Nikki Sex

c667214

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

true-love letting-go hearbreak forgiving giving-up loving mercy forgiveness

Jodi Picoult

0a77506

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

success inspirational giving-up failure

Elbert Hubbard

09e9848

"Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar. "How're you making it?" on may ask, running into them along the block, or in the bar. "Oh, I'm TV-ing it"; with the saddest, sweetest, most shamefaced of smiles, and from a great distance. This distance one is compelled to respect; anyone who has traveled so far will not easily be dragged again into the world. There are further retreats, of course, than the TV screen or the bar. There are those who are simply sitting on their stoops, "stoned," animated for a moment only, and hideously, by the approach of someone who may lend them the money for a "fix." Or by the approach of someone from whom they can purchase it, one of the shrewd ones, on the way to prison or just coming out."

giving-up apathy escapism

James Baldwin

3560c63

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

sadness giving-up

Khaled Hosseini

89a1ac1

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

giving-up mysteries failure

John Green

966a538

A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.

science humor inspirational giving-up

Anne McCaffrey

0c2c44f

This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

giving-up

Virginia Woolf

6a6d0b1

It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

moving-on relationship friendship love moving giving-up

Lois Lowry

937c2bb

O Life, How oft we throw it off and think, -- 'Enough, Enough of life in so much! -- here's a cause For rupture; -- herein we must break with Life, Or be ourselves unworthy; here we are wronged, Maimed, spoiled for aspiration: farewell Life!' -- And so, as froward babes, we hide our eyes And think all ended. -- Then, Life calls to us In some transformed, apocryphal, new voice, Above us, or below us, or around . . Perhaps we name it Nature's voice, or Love's, Tricking ourselves, because we are more ashamed To own our compensations than our griefs: Still, Life's voice! -- still, we make our peace with Life.

life giving-up

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

abf11c0

I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I give up. Come and get me.

giving-up

Anne Lamott

51ceec6

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It's not so much, what's the point? It's more like, what's the difference?

ground-floor suicide loss death life give-up unheard giving-up difference purpose point

Mitch Albom

ed0a0c1

It was me who had to carry myself over the finish line, and all I needed to remember when I felt like not trying was that that feeling wouldn't last forever.

strength not-trying temporary giving-up

Jennifer L. Armentrout

324b71e

"I feel I'm at the end of something -- everything is going to be different -- and terrible." "That doesn't sound like you, you ride every wave." "There is one that will drown me."

metaphor the-end the-green-knight iris-murdoch giving-up dialogue resilience

Iris Murdoch

b50c6ba

Her eyes, which refused to meet mine, had the defensive coldness of those who are determined to lose hope.

the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch giving-up determined hopeless eyes

iris murdoch

b6df8ef

I have found that sometimes when a person gives up on 'humankind' they can often find trust and love in animal kind. Andre Chevalier

depression humanity trust love trust-issues giving-up

Nikki Sex