Quotes About Abandonment

That is what exile meant: no one was coming, no one ever would. There was fear in that knowledge,

Aucune loi n'oblige les dieux à être justes, Achille, reprit Chiron. Et après tout, peut-être que l'ultime chagrin consiste à se retrouver seul sur terre une fois que l'autre est parti.

E dopotutto forse il dolore più grande è quello di chi viene lasciato da solo sulla terra. Non credi?

Il dolore più grande è quello di chi viene lasciato da solo sulla terra.

Jamás voy a dejarle. Será así siempre, hasta que él me abandone». -La canción de Aquiles (Madeline Miller)

Esme looks up, sees the watch in Iris's outstretched hand and shakes her head. She holds up the blue check material and Iris sees that it is a dress, a woollen dress, that it's crumpled and two of the buttons are missing, torn out from the fabric. Esme is shaking it, as if something might be caught in its folds, then casts it aside.

viz., that man should not rashly engage in speculation with false conceptions, and when he is in doubt about anything, or unable to find a proof for the object of his inquiry, he must not at once abandon, reject and deny it; he must modestly keep back,

Y yo no supe cómo el abandono de aquel gesto pudo despertar tanta ternura en mí, ni por qué me fue tan dulce el tibio contacto de tu piel

Sabes?- dijo sentándose-, tiene gracia, todos encontramos buenas excusas para no permitirnos amar, por miedo a sufrir, por miedo a que un día nos abandonen. Y, sin embargo, cuánto amamos la vida, pese a saber que algún día nos abandonará.

You know," he said, easing down into the chair. "It's funny how we always search for reasons not to love—fear of suffering, fear of abandonment—but the love of life, oh, how much you can take for granted until you realize that, one day, you're going to lose all of it.

after 410, but that within a generation the villas and towns of Roman Britain had been almost completely abandoned.

please remember that leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun with you while you get dressed is not the same things as abandonment. Similarly, leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun when she needs to sleep is not neglect.

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

Carried away in a sort of dream, he smiled, then he began to hurry back towards the lady; he was walking faster than usual, and his shoulders swayed backwards and forwards, right and left, in the most absurd fashion; altogether he looked, so utterly had he abandoned himself to it, ignoring all other considerations, as though he were the lifeless and wire-pulled puppet of his own happiness.

One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.

Isa. xliii. 22, "Thou hast not called upon me, thou hast been weary of me.

out the window onto the freeway, where it was run over several hundred times in the next hour or so, before

screamed the scream of the abandoned

Alex Roentgen twisted again, faced the ground that would kill him, and screamed the scream of the abandoned.

They were fed and clothed and taken care of until they were too old, and then they were kicked out. This ending was no deterrent. No one who is young is ever going to be old.

Your sons have no names." Adam replied, "Their mother left them motherless." "And you have left them fatherless. Can't you feel the cold at night of a lone child? What warm is there, what bird song, what possible morning can be good? Don't you remember, Adam, how it was, even a little?" "I didn't do it," Adam said. "Have you undone it? Your boys have no names.

The houses were vacant, and a vacant house falls quickly apart.

You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do nothing like that. I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs.

When a city begins to grow and spread outward, from the edges, the center which was once its glory is in a sense abandoned to time. Then the buildings grow dark and a kind of decay sets in; poorer people move in as the rents fall, and small fringe businesses take the place of once flowering establishments. The district is still too good to tear down and too outmoded to be desirable.