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Quotes About Abandonment

Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his household.
~ James Allen
Man is always the master, even in his weakest and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his household.
~ James Allen
It was a gesture of great despair and I knew that she was giving herself, not to me, but to that lover who would never come.
~ James Baldwin
She knew that he was going to leave her. It was in his walk, his talk, his eyes. He wanted to go. He had already moved back, crouching to leap. And she had no rival. He was not going to another woman. He simply wanted to go. It would happen today, tomorrow, three weeks from today; it was over, she could do nothing about it; neither could she save herself by jumping first.
~ James Baldwin
Trupul nu-i decat o biata coliba pierduta in pustie.
~ James Clavell
he still remembered their cries for help in God's name. But God had turned His face from those men that day, so they had perished
~ James Clavell
I am alone. I have no one to talk to and no one to call
~ James Frey
In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For the first time in American history, it was not only legal to relinquish a baby; in Nebraska, it was okay to abandon any child of any age for any reason at any time - with the full protection of the law.
~ Wil S. Hylton
Even close people left me - I was hurt by them and felt there was nobody who understands me, which made me fall apart.
~ Sulli
When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
~ Al Goldstein
The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappearing history, like a ghost town.
~ Ransom Riggs
If you're getting abandonment, if you're getting abuse as a child, if you're getting uncertainty when you're a child, unfortunately you tend to look for that in your life later on, and you think that's love.
~ Sebastian Stan
Loneliness is your only companion.
~ Compton Gage
The most easiest thing is to leave, abandon or forget somebody.. Difficult is to be with someone, after all it comes with responsibility which not everyone fulfill.
~ Balkrishn Sanmotra
A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.
~ Émile Zola
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
~ Aldous Huxley
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.
~ Tupac Shakur
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
~ Honore de Balzac
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
~ T. S. Eliot
A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.
~ Akkineni Nagarjuna
He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.
~ Guru Nanak
The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
He had searched for redemption under the bright dead moon, and he had come up empty-handed. Adam would die a thing that was alone and unloved. Just like that moon.
~ Terry M. West