Jessamyn West Quotes

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.

There was a time in my life when I used to plan elaborately; not anymore. I gave up when I realised nothing was going my way.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

I've lost a lot. I'm tired of it. It's not fun.

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave from shore. I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding it's time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

I'm done in this business, that's for sure.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Surrender had played out for good with me.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

I don't care if I don't act anymore.

There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen.

I really don't feel like playing anymore.

If it's just the same with you, Mr. President, I'd like to lie down and die.