Quotes About Desertion

for the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, away from persecution, away from any accusation, away from worries; he has nothing to take care of, love is taking care of him, love as he's always wanted it and never had it: love-repose; love-oblivion; love-desertion; love-carefreeness; love-meaningless.

Desertion is the army's dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up the fight. Most of them disappear while at home on leave, fading into a network of family and friends, and the army does not typically chase them down.

It looks to me like everything has just walked off and left me

Or maybe there was no one there at all and you'd gone out so no matter how hard I shouted there was no one there.

This is God's self-description, the one he would have us remember. He is the God of mercy and forgiveness, the God who never deserts his people, faithful to the end, patient with all our failings however dismaying, but reminding us that a household—a familial environment, holding three (or sometimes four) generations—cannot escape the sins of the oldest generation; they necessarily infect the atmosphere.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

por eso salían a cazar a los desertores con lazo y enseguida los azotaban para enseñarles su doctrina de amor y perdón.

The cry of true love which is abandoned, is like the scream of the bird when it dies!

most give way leaving empty spaces where people should be.

I know that I have deserted you, the icecubes pile like fool's gold in the pitcher and now they are playing Alex Scriabin which is a little better but not much for me.

There's a sad feeling in a place people have just walked out of and left behind.

So little goes with the body of a man. So much is left behind.

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

Being left behind was a special kind of loss. —

I've decided the worst part of being lonely isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

The only way to ensure that Red Army recruits did not desert or run away, Trotsky had concluded, was to mount machine-guns in their rear and shoot any who failed to advance against the enemy. This was the choice he offered: possible death in the front or certain death in the rear. 'We must put an end once and for all', he sneered with a characteristically caustic turn of phrase, 'to the papist-Quaker babble about the sanctity of human life.

A departure can feel like a desertion, a judgement on the place and people left behind.

An even worse memory followed: Gaëtan. He had abandoned her after all; it filled her with the kind of bone-deep disappointment she knew so well.

You turned your back on me when I needed you.

so this desertion was nothing more than the last rebellion of the doomed, like the lambs that stagger back on their feet after their throats have been cut. In

Let me be like a thing left in a corner and forgotten

She talks of the desertion. How each time it broke her heart. How with each break it became harder to heal.

Loneliness is your only companion.

To be cut off, to be left solitary; to have a world alien, not your world; all a hostile camp for you; not a home at all of hearts and faces who are yours, whose you are! It is the frightfullest enchantment; too truly a work of the Evil One. To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you. Without father, without child, without brother. Man knows no sadder destiny.