Quotes About Abandonment

I fear that someday you will abandon the joys we share and find another not worthy of your charms.

Et un jour on se retrouve à jouer seul. L'autre retire ses billes, reprend ses cartes, et vous restez là, comme un con, devant une partie inachevée... A attendre. Parce que vous ne pouvez faire que ça, attendre. Cesser d'attendre, ça voudrait dire que c'est fini.

none are left to please when none are left to love.

Perhaps he will say, 'That was an excellent idea the ancient Greeks had, of abandoning female infants on a mountainside. Why was that practice given up, I wonder?

True orphans" are those whose parents have died and no relative claims them. But today, children are being removed from their homes as "economic orphans.

Many states have relinquishment policies that force parents to choose between keeping their children or getting them help. Those who do relinquish their children may face criminal abandonment charges and may be ineligible to adopt again." -- Mary Boo, Assistant Director of the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) in Minnesota.

What does a sign on an out-of-business brothel say?" He beamed. "Beat it, we're closed.

There was a ticking time bomb inside my head and the one person I trusted to go in and get it out hadn't shown up or spoken to me for more than a year.

I have to reregister a room for my heart. It's been waiting a long time, somewhere outside, without so much as a whisper of protest. That abandonment wasn't just an abuse, it was a sin.

Survivors look back and see omens, messages they missed. They remember the tree that died, the gull that splattered onto the hood of the car. They live by symbols. They read meaning into the barrage of spam on the unused computer, the delete key that stops working, the imagined abandonment in the decision to replace it.

Perhaps most strikingly of all, it was clear in 1988 that those inside the process had congealed into a permanent political class, the defining characteristic of which was its readiness to abandon those not inside the process.

Only the survivors of a death and truly left alone

If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do? Make them stay. And if you can't do that, or don't know how to? Ellie shrugged. I don't know. Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first, Coop said, so you don't have to watch them walk away.

When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don't notice when they drop out of your world.

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else...

What could you give me, I ask, my voice shaking, to make me forget ... that you forgot about me?

I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by almost everyone.

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

The point is, if someone abandons you, it may be less about you and more about them.

I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.

The pain is real and the scars are true. But you left me broken so now I'm dead to you.

I miss my friends, they told me I abandoned them...

How sad and fu..ed up--to let a friendship of almost 5 years just drain away like it was nothing. I'm walking away. I'm done.

It's sad my friendship meant that little.