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# Weekend Words: Quitting
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/weekend-words-quitting/
- Published: 2013-02-17T16:15:08.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:35:41.000Z
- Description: Now that Pope Benedict XVI has decided to pack it in, Weekend Words considers quitting, but not quite yet.
- Author: Weekend Editors
- Tags: Opinion, Weekend, Weekend Words, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

![Moritz von Schwind, "Farewell at Dawn" (1859). Oil on cardboard, 36 x 24 cm. Nationalgalerie, Berlin. (Image via Web Gallery of Art) (Click to enlarge) ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2013/02/leaving-at-dawn-copy.jpg)

Moritz von Schwind, “Farewell at Dawn” (1859). Oil on cardboard, 36 x 24 cm. Nationalgalerie, Berlin. (Image via Web Gallery of Art) (Click to enlarge)

Now that [Pope Benedict XVI](https://hyperallergic.com/the-legacy-of-a-conservative-catholic-pope-who-was-surprisingly-open-minded-about-art/) has decided to pack it in, Weekend Words considers quitting, but not quite yet.

> “I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.”  
>  
> **—Bela Lugosi**  
>  
> “Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.”  
>  
> **—George Sanders, in his suicide note.**  
>  
> “A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.”  
>  
> **—Richard Nixon**