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Quotes About Abandonment

We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Throughout the act, headlights came on across the field, sweeping over them, lighting up the goal-post. Lux said, in the middle, I always screw things up. I always do and began to sob. Trip Fontaine told us a little more. We asked him if he put her in the cab but he said no. I walked home that night. I didn;t care how she got home. I just took off. Then: It's weird. I mean, I liked her I really liked her. I just got sick of her right then.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Dust balls lined the steps. A half-eaten sandwich sat atop the landing where someone had felt too sad to finish it.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Nosso único legado seria a deserção.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
That's not a father. That's a sperm donor. Forget him. He's a mess. Concentrate on me. I'm terrific. -(Linc Blaise)
~ Jennifer Crusie
When the accoutrements of custom disappear, they may be replaced by a sense of abandonment, of being adrift in unchartered waters. Our children lack a sense of history and belonging—of an anchored presence in the world. To establish a sense of control and comforting familiarity in an alienating society, the individual may resort to a wide range of pathological behavior—substance addiction, eating disorders, criminal behaviors, and so on.
~ Jerold J. Kreisman
I would just spit, burp, and call good riddance! Who needs ya? Who cares?
~ Jerry Spinelli
And yet my lexicon develops without logic, in a darting, fleeting manner. The words appear, accompany me for a while, then, often without warning, abandon me.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.
~ Laura Dern
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
~ Seneca the Younger
There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.
~ Josh Radnor
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
~ Douglas Coupland
We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
~ Ugo Betti
Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment
~ Unknown
People don't abandon people they love. People abandon people they were using.
~ Unknown
Street deserted because the people were forced to do so.
~ Unknown
48:7.21 Anxiety must be abandoned. The disappointments hardest to bear are those which never come.
~ Unknown
I failed her. And she's out of my life. I don't even know where she's living. What she's doing to get through the days. And I miss her. Every single day, I miss her.
~ Val McDermid
Não é difícil morrer em batalha, com a espada em punho, morrer ao sol, no auge do êxtase, no frenesim do combate. Já uma coisa muito diferente é irmo-nos apagando lentamente, à míngua e ao abandono.
~ Unknown
And with those words, Logan Sangre turns around and leaves me standing. He walks away in rapid strides, and I see his hand reach for the blue pin on his uniform, rip it off violently, and toss it on the floor behind him. The pin lands, rolls and stops some distance away from my feet, and starts blinking to indicate the loss of proximity. So does its mate, the corresponding pin on my chest.
~ Vera Nazarian
But you have abandoned us, and we don't know what to do with ourselves after we are broken.
~ Vera Nazarian
She says she glories in being abandoned
~ J.M. Barrie
The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.
~ Leslie Ludy