Giving In Quotes

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“their heart grew cold
they let their wings down”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“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.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems

“Il ne savait pas encore s'il souffrait parce qu'il suivait une pente et que l'avenir venait à lui sans qu'il eût à s'en saisir. Quand on s'abandonne on ne souffre pas. Quand on s'abandonne même à la tristesse on ne souffre plus.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail

“Anything can happen: anything. Or nothing. Who can say? The world, monstrous, is made that way, and in the end consumes us all. Who am I, administrated or no, to have the audacity to survive it?”
― Brian Evenson, Fugue State

“Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.”
― Carol Ann Duffy, Selling Manhattan

“If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“I finally gave in today. Admitting that I haven't been able to do it alone, that's defeat right? But do a couple pills change why I'm here? Will my spirit be altered? Do my passions change? Will I lose hope either way? My madness is what makes me. It’s my most unique beauty.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2

“Song


You know that it is there, lair
where the bear ceases
for a time even to exist.

Crawl in. You have at last killed
enough and eaten enough to be fat
enough to cease for a time to exist.

Crawl in. It takes talent to live at night, and scorning
others you had that talent, but now you sniff
the season when you must cease to exist.

Crawl in. Whatever for good or ill
grows within you needs
you for a time to cease to exist.

It is not raining inside
tonight. You know that it is there. Crawl in.”
― Frank Bidart, Star Dust

“Fear wants you to stay scared, Bunny. But you don't have to give in. You don't have to let it control you.”
― Rebekah Crane, The Upside of Falling Down

“Maybe there are times when one should welcome defeat, tell it to come right in and sit down.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“All habits are bad habits. (...) Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

“When I built my luminous prison around you, you simply lay down at the center of it and died.”
― Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains

“He wanted more than anything, to walk over the bridge. To just leave Oyster Point and go to college in the city, where maybe people were different. But he also said that he was afraid that if he set out to cross that bridge, he might not make it to the other end without giving in to the temptation to jump and just be done with it.”
― Tara Altebrando, The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life

“Come in, defeat, come in and make yourself at home.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“Only 2 things determine if your life will end; God's will, and if you choose to give up. As difficult as life can get (and I know we face challenges that shake our faith and test our strength), keep in mind; you thought you'd NEVER survive the last "thing" you went through. Well, here you are, still living! That said giving up should no longer be an option.”
― Carlos Wallace

“When it begins to feel like too much effort, it's probably not worth the effort and it's totally okay to quit, give up or give in at will.”
― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

“When survival is a reflex:
Frying eggs with Vaseline petroleum jelly
Mixing porridge with a gun
Cooking soup in a Koo Baked Beans can
Putting fake coins inside the cup of a homeless beggar in the corner
There is war in my mind
Jo’burg stinks of pain, money, sex and drugs.
I am flesh to this city of bones
But yet my soul wants to be consumed by the spirits of the midnight
dust”
― Ayanda Ngema, They Raped Me: So, Now What?