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Quotes About Abandonment

He said, I don't know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you no one would come.
~ Claudia Rankine
Books are the anchors Left by the ships that rot away.
~ Clive James
a poem is never finished, only abandoned,
~ Clive James
When everything has left you, you are alone. When you have left everything, you are lonely.
~ Clive James
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; it is the deserting male who often ends in disaster. (William McFee)
~ Colin Dexter
the optimal goal is the replacement of false needs by true ones, the abandonment of repressive satisfaction.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Men will tell you that they are so in love with you that it is making them ill. They will say they have stopped eating and sleeping. They say that they fear unless they can have you they will die. Then, the moment you give in, they get up and walk away and lose all interest. The next week they will pass you by as if they don't know you.
~ Hilary Mantel
Men will tell you that they are so in love with you that it is making them ill. They will say they have stopped eating and sleeping. They say that they fear unless they can have you they will die. Then, the moment you given, they get up and walk away and lose all interest. The next week they will pass you by as if they don't know you.
~ Hilary Mantel
She considered it a great relief when a few days later she heard that her abandoned husband had caught pneumonia.
~ Hilary McKay
Far away can be too far away, when the wrong people are left behind.
~ Hilary McKay
He loved me and I would rather have him become one with me than disappear from my life. Then I'd never have to be away from him ever again. He said I was important to him. So why did he leave me? How could he leave me?
~ Unknown
It's not fair. We had a story, and our story was important. And I hate that both of you can just walk away and take part of my story with you and not even care. I hate that you can do what you're supposed to do and I can't. I hate that you're going to leave me behind. I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like dying. It feels like each of you is being possessed and I'm next.
~ Holly Black
I hate that you can do what you're supposed to do and I can't. I hate that you're going to leave me behind. I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like dying . It feels like each one of you is being possessed and I'm next.
~ Holly Black
Since no one loves me, I'll go.
~ Holly Black
She had shrieked and shrieked for her mother, but her mother was already there. Her mother was the monster.
~ Holly Black
Cardan was left to be suckled by a little black cat whose kittens came stillborn.' 'He survived on cat milk?' I exclaim. ... I think again of the globe I held in Eldred's study, of Cardan dressed in rags, looking to the woman in my chamber for approval, which came only when he was awful. An abandoned prince, weaned on cat milk and cruelty, left to roam the palace like a little ghost.
~ Holly Black
be the stone wall of an abandoned folly.
~ Holly Black
Ak mladík v diev?ati prebudí lásku a potom odíde, je to ako ke? umelec opustí v polovici majstrovské dielo.
~ Honore de Balzac
What must the rest of the world be like when one of the kindest of women forgets all her promises of befriending me in a moment, and tosses me aside like an old shoe? So it is every one for himself?
~ Honore de Balzac
Just come back home, Abigail, come back home and stop this. He left us. He left you. You were my reward. Missing out on you was his punishment. How could you choose him?
~ Liane Moriarty
He hated Harry for dumping his father even more than he hated him for cheating.
~ Liane Moriarty
her brother had not just gone into another room, he was gone, so gone, so silent, not a text not a post not a tweet not a word, and next thing she was struggling for breath and all she could think was, Get out.
~ Liane Moriarty
I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.
~ Lili St. Crow
God does not demand that you and I have blind faith, but abandoned faith, a faith that trusts Him fully.
~ Linda Dillow