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Quotes About Abandonment

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.
~ Edward Gibbon
Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.
~ Lorrie Moore
Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.
~ Michel de Montaigne
When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.
~ Jennifer Weiner
I also sing about my mom leaving me a lot - a lot of kids have their moms or dads leave them, so they relate to that. I wear my heart on my sleeve, so I think that's what the kids love.
~ Ronnie Radke
When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.
~ Nicole Richie
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
~ Vernon Howard
I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
~ Rowan Atkinson
No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.
~ Hermann Adler
When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.
~ Emma Thompson
I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
~ Eartha Kitt
My mother left me when I was 2 years old which is devestating to a child.
~ Kellie Pickler
Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed.
~ Mary Bell
It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.
~ Tupac Shakur
I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.
~ Kenny Loggins
Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
~ Kate Millett
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.
~ Billy Corgan
My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.
~ Gregory Corso
I never felt like I had a mother.
~ Quincy Jones
Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify.
~ Kim Hyesoon
My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
~ Mark Webber
Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.
~ Michael Reagan