Quotes About Desertion

For man, there is nothing harder to endure than loneliness.

It had become his custom, each time he was deserted, to buy a gallon of wine, to stretch out on the comfortably hard bunk and get drunk. Sometimes he cried a little all by himself but it was luxurious stuff and he usually had a wonderful feeling of well-being from it. He would read Rimbaud aloud with a very bad accent, marveling the while at his fluid speech.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes

Nonetheless, America has left you feeling like an unwanted cat or dog tossed out of the family SUV at a distant highway rest stop.

Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between my mother and Hannah. My mother deserted me at the 7-Eleven, hundred of kilometers away from home. Hannah, however, did the unforgivable. She deserted me in our own backyard.

But no one came back

oral folk culture suggests that poor men openly joked about it. Desertion to them was part of the daily resistance to upper-class rule.

There is no way to know precisely how many men deserted. The official count from the U.S. provost marshal's report was 103,400. This was out of a total of 750,000 to 850,000 men listed as in the army by the end of the war.

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.

And Saul waited seven days for the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the troops began to desert Saul.

So all the men of Israel deserted David to follow Sheba son of Bichri. But the men of Judah stayed by their king all the way from the Jordan to Jerusalem.

Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

Even the doe in the field deserts her newborn fawn because there is no grass.

But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”

“That is a lie,” Jeremiah replied. “I am not deserting to the Chaldeans!” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and took him to the officials.

But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, for the Chaldeans may deliver me into their hands to abuse me.”

All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ëThey misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.í

All who handle the oars will abandon their ships. The sailors and all the captains of the sea will stand on the shore.

Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”

But this has all happened so that the writings of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.

Then everyone deserted Him and fled.

for on account of him many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.