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Resignation (n.) is the short-cut by which God and man come nearest — but this short-cut is an entire journey around existence.
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Resignation (n.) is neither "Now I die and then it is all over," nor hoping on in immediacy, nor recovering by natural health and grasping the temporal all the harder.
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Resignation (n.) that is illusory takes for the eternal decision what is only an indefinite extension of time: weary of fruitless renunciation, one falls gently asleep in eternity while time passes, and wakes belonging again to life.
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Resignation (n.) once made wants no reprieve: the merchant resigned to the loss of his ship takes no joy in a sailor running after him — "one can see the ship again!" — and then, through the spyglass, "Well, now it is gone again."
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Resignation (n.) is so scarce in our age that a man who has managed enough of it to marry feels he has done enough, and cannot put up with children too.
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Resignation (n.) says: God requires Isaac, I sacrifice him and my joy with him — yet God is love, though in the temporal world we have no language in common.
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Resignation (n.) is the surrogate for faith: the infinite movement by which one finds oneself and reposes again in oneself.
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Resignation (n.) is proved false the day the princess marries a prince and the soul loses its elasticity.
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Resignation (n.) needs no faith; it is a purely philosophical movement that wins my eternal consciousness — faith is needed only to gain the least thing more.
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Resignation (n.) is not much to boast of when one is already tired of the goods resigned.