Quotes About Abandonment

on the cross, just moments before his death, Jesus cries out in anguish and dereliction, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" That is the pivot point of all cosmic history, for in that moment God became fully human. Only when God felt abandoned, alone in the universe, did God gain total empathy with the human condition.

If He ever did come back, if He ever dared to show His face, or his Glyph, or whatever in the Garden again— if after all this destruction, if after all the terrible days of this terrible century, He returned to see how much suffering His abandonment had created, if all He has to offer is death, you should sue the bastard. That's my only contribution to all this theology: sue the bastard for walking out. How dare He.

This is why, Joe, this is why I shouldn't be left alone.

And it felt like every time I turned around, somebody was either dying or walking out.

She stared at her friend as a feeling of total desolation slipped through her, as if she were drifting away on an ice floe without a single living person hearing her cries for help.

Here in the shadow of the firs lay everything the old house had spat out in the course of its life, everything worn out and unnecessary, everything not to be seen. In the darkening winter evening, this landscape was utterly abandoned, a territory that had no meaning for anyone but him. He found it beautiful.

I can't say this often enough: a baby who has been traumatized by abandonment often has more severe sleep problems at this age, and solutions take longer. With tough cases I bring in a blow-up bed and sleep in the child's room at least for the first night.

let you down let you go let you die

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Given the state of her room, it would have been no surprise to find her chest of drawers utterly empty;

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

Jealousy is really an umbrella term for a constellation of feelings including envy, competitiveness, insecurity, inadequacy, possessiveness, fear of abandonment, feeling unloved, and feeling left out. To say simply "I am jealous" is far too vague, since it means different things to different people and it manifests itself in so many diverse ways.

Now Second Avenue is a dismal street, made from scraps and ends; part cobblestone, part asphalt, part cement; and its atmosphere of desertion is permanent.

You can't help him, Eva.' Louise's voice is flat and serious. 'You will only lose yourself trying, and no one will be able to find you.' (ANXIOUS HEARTS)

Abandonment by betrayal is worse than mindless neglect. Betrayal is purposeful and self-serving.

Io penso che fosse solo spaventato. Penso che scambiasse qualsiasi manifestazione di stanchezza da parte di Stella per il segno di un abbandono imminente. Dopotutto era un artista, e in ogni artista si annida un bambino sperduto e indifeso.

How has it come to this? Where once my life was populated with the living, now I seem to keep company only with ghosts and ghouls and the like.

Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati.

If you do not have the possibility of abandoning your religion, you do not enjoy the possibility of freely embracing it, either.

Why Brownlee left, and where he went, Is a mystery even now. For if a man should have been content It was him; two acres of barley, One of potatoes, four bullocks, A milker, a slated farmhouse. He was last seen going out to plough On a March morning, bright and early. By noon Brownlee was famous; They had found all abandoned, with The last rig unbroken, his pair of black Horses, like man and wife, Shifting their weight from foot to Foot, and gazing into the future.

He turned away and stumped on down the road leaving her to follow. The view from the back was that of an old man, thin, frail, intolerable to live with, intolerable to think of as one day not being there because then she would have nothing to live for herself.

I remember one party when we seemed to be absolutely stranded. Perhaps that was symbolic, Mr Turner. I mean everyone else gone and just Tusker and me, peering out into the dark waiting for transport that never turned up.

No one ever came here; people just went away from it and never returned.

a world of broken promises, a land to flee.