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Quotes About Abandonment

Sometimes I hate getting close to people, because I think they will just walk out of my life no matter how close we are.
~ Unknown
Leave me to rot in the position I am. No one will ever know I'm gone.
~ Unknown
It's hard being left behind. It's hard to be the one who stays.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
Being replaced is the worst feeling ever. One moment you think that you mean the world to them, and then before you know it, you're all alone.
~ Unknown
It's fine. I get it. You text me, call me, flirt with me. But now, when I need you most, you don't want anything to do with me.
~ Unknown
Lonely is not a feeling when you are alone. Lonely is a feeling when no one cares.
~ Unknown
I hate it when someone starts to tell me something, then says, 'Never Mind.'
~ Unknown
Its a shame that the very people who you protect are the first ones to turn there backs on you.
~ Unknown
Good luck trying to find someone who cares like I did, who understands you like I do and who is forgiving like I am and when you realize there's no one out there like me...I won't be where you left me...
~ Unknown
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
~ Maimonides
We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
~ Uma Thurman
I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.
~ Janeane Garofalo
I remember reading about the Marie Celeste when I was a kid and becoming obsessed with what happened.
~ Tana French
I'd suffered many losses in recent years after my father mother uncle aunt and cousin had all passed away. In her final years my mother often lamented that there was no one alive who had known her as a girl and I was starting to understand how spooked she'd felt. I wasn't sure I could take any more abandonments. One succumbs so easily to mind spasms, worry spasms. [p. 95]
~ Diane Ackerman
Not even a ghost could survive here.
~ Diane Setterfield
Do you mean to tell me, Aurelius, that you are a foundling?" "Yes. That is the word for what I am. A foundling.
~ Diane Setterfield
The one-story wooden houses looked a set of dentures that hadn't seen Polident in years. FBI Agent Marc Wilkins
~ DiAnn Mills
Pero mi vida no sólo está acechada por el porvenir, también lo está por los fantasmas de mi propio pasado, que surgieron luego del deceso de quien encarnaba todo lo que yo había querido abandonar, todo con lo que había querido romper y que, seguramente, había constituido para mí una suerte de modelo social negativo, un contrapunto en el trabajo que había llevado a cabo para crearme a mí mismo.
~ Didier Eribon
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
~ Don DeLillo
The world is full of abandoned meanings.
~ Don DeLillo
He has abandoned his life to understanding that moment in Dallas, the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century.
~ Don DeLillo
No, no, no, no. Who are you? What is this? Don't leave. They're leaving. They've left.
~ Don DeLillo
What people in an exodus fear most immediately is that those in positions of authority will long since have fled, leaving us
~ Don DeLillo
I'll never fall in love, because I could never trust that I wouldn't be abandoned.
~ Don Lee