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Quotes About Abandonment

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.
~ Haruki Murakami
...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left
~ John Banville
I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.
~ Tawni O'Dell
I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone.
~ Elvis Presley
In mir wühlte eine Verlassenheit, wie Termiten in einem gefallenen Baumstamm.
~ Werner Herzog
relinquish him. From then
~ Wilbur Smith
When we are isolated and poor, we are not infrequently forgotten.
~ Wilkie Collins
Bana uyku ilac?m? verip gittin. Seni görünce bir an cesaretimi kaybeder gibi oldum. Kendi kendime Bana sevgiyle bakarsa ona ne yapm?? olduÄŸumu söyleyeceÄŸim ve b?rakaca??m beni kurtars?n. Ama sen yüzüme bile bakmad?n, yaln?zca ilaca bak?yordun. Ben de hiçbir ÅŸey söylemeden gitmene izin verdim.
~ Wilkie Collins
The Library is desolation, it has a smell of its own of stagnation and death.
~ William Carlos Williams
The Tughluks have gone; Tughlukabad is a ruin; only Nizamuddin remains.
~ William Dalrymple
She is not listening. If she could hear words like that she would not be getting down from this wagon, with that belly and that fan and that little bundle, alone, bound for a place she never saw before and hunting for a man she ain't going to ever see again and that she has already seen one time too many as it is.
~ William Faulkner
Beyond the bordering weeds a fence strangled in limp dilapidation, and from the weeds beside it the handles of a plow stood at a gaunt angle while its shard rusted peacefully in the undergrowth, and other implements rusted half concealed there - skeletons of labor healed over by the earth they were to have violated, kinder than they.
~ William Faulkner
and the romantics end up anchorites in the desert.
~ William Gaddis
How she felt, now, was just the way she'd felt that day she'd come back to the trailer and found her mother all packed up and gone. No message there but a can of ravioli in a pot on the stove, with the can-opener propped up beside it. She hadn't eaten that ravioli and she hadn't eaten any since and she knew she never would.
~ William Gibson
Te amo. Te amo. Te abandoné en el Pantano de Fuego para poner a prueba tu amor. ¿Es tan grande como el mío por ti? ¿Acaso pueden dos amores así existir en un mismo planeta y al mismo tiempo? ¿Hay lugar para algo así, amado Westley...?
~ William Goldman
No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The
~ William L. Shirer
But the fact remains that according to the testimony of one of his own Nazi followers in the column, the physician Dr. Walther Schulz, which was supported by several other witnesses, Hitler "was the first to get up and turn back," leaving his dead and wounded comrades lying in the street. He
~ William L. Shirer
This gentleman is cactus," said Doul.
~ China Mieville
A haggard man used one of the huts as a home. He lay on a sagging mattress, his head on his pack, surrounded by rubbish - paper, porcelain shards, food remains and unidentifiable debris. His hand was over his eyes. He looked like a failed soldier. Dirt seemed so worked into him that the lines of his face were like writing.
~ China Mieville
Left alone to die on a frozen hill! I, whose life had been a rush of attending to the needs of my five husbands—how ironic that at the moment of my own final need not one of them should be with me!
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Siz makineler dünyas?nda ya??yorsunuz ve kalbi çarpan ?eylerin dü?ünü kuruyorsunuz.Biz makineleri dü?lüyoruz çünkü çarpan kalplerin bizi terk etti?ini gördük.
~ Chris Cleave
Throughout his life, honors he had sought, honors he had not sought, were his, often at a younger age than anyone before him. Now, when he needed his magic the most, he was despised, abandoned, isolated, and utterly unable to control events around him, the first and only elected president in American history to be denied re-nomination by his own party. The last redoubt of Pierce supporters may have been within his own cabinet, the only one to remain intact over a four-year term.
~ Chris DeRose
Because identifying so completely with someone else can only happen by abandoning yourself, ... panics and retreats abruptly from these connections. Connect and cut.
~ Chris Kraus
There were some low moments out there on the road tonight—abandonment and what's the point?—but then I pulled in a radio station from Albuquerque playing historical rap and breakdance circa 1982. Kurtis Blow and disco synthesizers made me feel like I could drive all night.
~ Chris Kraus