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Quotes About Abandonment

There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.
~ Unknown
This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Entrust yourself entirely to God. He is a Father and a most loving Father at that, who would rather let heaven and earth collapse than abandon anyone who trusted in him.
~ Paul of the Cross
Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.
~ Andre Dubus
When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.
~ Dennis Rodman
My father was absolutely no good.
~ Charles Rangel
Your father leaving your family, that's your bedrock for all your future relationships and that's your security when you're a kid.
~ Naomi Judd
The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.
~ Stanley Coren
Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.
~ Candace Pert
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
~ Beatrix Potter
Be careful how you treat someone that cares for you because they might just walk away and never come back.
~ Unknown
Ive learn that when the going gets tough everybody leaves, but when you succeed everyone's in need.
~ Unknown
Regret being there for you, Didn't realize you wouldn't be there when I needed you.
~ Unknown
When everyone else was talking' smack, I defended you. When everyone else left, I was there. When nobody cared, I loved you. But I guess it wasn't enough.
~ Unknown
What happened to you always being there. Tell me where you are now.
~ Unknown
Guess who was there for you? Me. Guess whose not there for me? You.
~ Unknown
You get used to someone being there for you, being your bestfriend, you have feelings. Then they just leave. You feel empty.
~ Unknown
Being there for someone and giving them your all, only to find yourself alone when you need them in return...
~ Unknown
I'm tired of being last to everyone I care about.
~ Unknown
Obviously, we prefer to be praised rather than insulted and still more when a woman we love deceives us, what would we not give that it should be otherwise. But the resentment of the affront, the pain of the abandonment would in that event have been worlds we should never have known, the discovery of which, painful as it may be for the man, is precious for the artist. In spite of himself and of themselves, the mischievous and the ungrateful must figure in his work.
~ Marcel Proust
The ray of light beneath his door is extinguished. It is midnight; some one has turned out the gas; the last servant has gone to bed, and he must lie all night in agony with no one to bring him any help. I
~ Marcel Proust
People leave for a reason. They tell you what it is. They offer the right of reply. They do not just leave. No, that is childish. That is the only absurd hypothesis.
~ Marcel Proust
Our social existence, like an artist's studio, is filled with abandoned sketches.
~ Marcel Proust
Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.
~ Margaret Way