Quotes About Abandonment

didn't leave you," he said finally. "What?" "Your mom never said anything?" "No," she said, her voice cracking, pleading. "What happened?" "I didn't leave you." Confusion flooded her face. "I would never have left you. It was…your mom. She sent me away.

She'd hoped he'd be her forever guy. She was so tired of starting over with a new man every couple years, only to be abandoned for unspecified reasons. When bad things happened over and over, it was a sign. God was telling you to change. Your attitude, your hair, your address.

As usual, no one's ever around when you need them.

I was alone. In ways people aren't supposed to be alone.

When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.

se derrumban por un instante inmenso y vislubramos nuestra unidad perdida, el desamparo que es ser hombres, la gloria que es ser hombres y compartir el pan, el sol, la muerte, el olvidado asombro de estar vivos

Nuestra cólera no se nutre . . . del temor de ser utilizados por nuestros confidentes . . . sino de la vergüenza de haber renunciado a nuestra soledad. El que se confía, se enajena.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he could have so much fun with his classmates that there is never a moment they arent´t exploding into laughter, he could spend every hour of the day chatting with his intimates, but if that man has been abandoned by God, he´d still be the loneliest man on earth.

Encontrarse solo con los rastros en lugar de con los recuerdos en sí se parece a mirar con lágrimas en los ojos la huella que ha dejado en un sillón vuestra amante después de abandonaros para no volver más.

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. Though I drew my last breath long ago and my heart has stopped beating, no one, apart from that vile murderer, knows what's happened to me.

Sooner or later they all turn their backs. They all leave. That's gospel. I've been there. I've seen it. They all do.

I had gone off with a contemp and a complete stranger—to say nothing of the dog—and left my contact waiting on the station platform or the tracks or in a boathouse somewhere.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

He turned and looked at the boy. Standing with his suitcase like an orphan waiting for a bus.

He sat by a gray window in the gray light in an abandoned house in the late afternoon and read old newspapers while the boy slept. The curious news. The quaint concerns.

Where men cant live gods fare no better. You'll see. It's better to be alone. So I hope that's not true what you said because to be on the road with the last god would be a terrible thing so I hope it's not true. Things will be better when everybody's gone.

And if the dried and blackened shell of him is found among the sands by travelers to come yet who can discover the engine of his ruin?

That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

like some scurrilous king stripped of his vestiture and driven together with his fool into the wilderness to die.