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Quotes About Abandonment

We are only alone when we abandon ourselves.
~ Ralph Smart
There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm afraid I'll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I'm afraid I'll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
~ Tablo
It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
~ Claude Debussy
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
~ Robert Frost
in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.
~ Alan Weisman
If a farmer does abandon his or her "tame" fields completely to nature, mistakes and destruction are inevitable.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka
People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dream Chaser
Since you would save none of me, I bury some of you.
~ John Donne
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Race hate isn't human nature race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
~ Orson Welles
Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.
~ Rumi
You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.
~ Cassandra Clare
God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.
~ Noah Levine
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
~ Ugo Betti
Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to abandon self-control and its fixation.
~ Frederick Lenz
If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.
~ Joy Harjo
All he did was breathe life into my soul. I was a conquest. An easy one, and you don't know how badly it hurts to know that I was used and tried for a time. Then thrown back.
~ Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.
~ William P. Perry
Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!
~ Tarek Saab
ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .
~ Ambrose Bierce
When my mother died I was very young,And my father sold me while yet my tongueCould scarcely cry 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.
~ William Blake
En apariencia abandonado y solo, escucho el león rugir: y toda puerta se cierra menos una, y esa es la puerta de la misericordia
~ William Cowper
By thirteen, I'd mostly stopped believing in God, but that was a new development and it left a hole in my world, a feeling that I'd been abandoned. The ocean was like an uncaring god, endlessly dangerous, power beyond measure.
~ William Finnegan