Quotes About Abandonment

According to Spitzer, social junk refers to those whom the state sees as beaten so far down, so nearly destroyed, that they just need to be moved aside. In the U.S., these include the mentally ill, drug addicts, lonely and frayed drifters, alcoholics, and cast-off impoverished elders.

The crucified God takes believers on a journey into earth, into its pain and suffering, and finds in that journey not the holiness of pain but the wonder of life's power to persist and transform. The way of the crucified God seeks God in earth's humanity, which has been abandoned, rejected, and despised, the people who know life amid their struggle.

this is the mirror in which pain is asleep this is the country nobody visits

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

I remember the ones who never cared while forgetting the ones who have always been there.

So is it over, is this really it? You've given up so easily, I thought you loved me more than this...

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unmourned, well, you get the drift. As a counselor once told me -a counselor for Disaffected Yought, I might add: "You like that crap because it reminds you of you." Couldn't of said it better or put it more bluntly. Don't even disagree with it either.

Polòtain kann mir alles nehmen, aber nicht sie. NICHT SIE! Städte hätte ich nach ihr benannt und Tempel für sie errichtet. Nun verstößt sie mich, ohne dass ich weiß, warum! Ohne dass sie es mir sagte! - Sinthoras

Old willows trailed veils of wet leaves across his path. Moss crawled up the headstones. The place was otherwise deserted.

In most states, on the day that a child in foster care turns eighteen, these supports largely disappear. The people who once attended to that child's needs are now either unable or unwilling to continue; a new case demands their time, a new child requires the bed.

They testify that nature is not changed but is preserved by God. But the stupid and crazy mob of monks has taught that parents, wives, and the world should be abandoned and that one should withdraw into a monastery. But what is to become of human society or finally of all life? Surely that was not sanctity or worship of God, as they have called it; it was satanic madness.

Artists never finish a project — they just abandon it.

How ironic she thought, to store the past but never tend to it. ~ Mary June

Loneliness. It's a thing, you know, not a feeling. A big, ugly thing that moves in and takes over until you forget how to live without it, but you can't live with it either.

I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

To your friends, you're like a trash bag; they'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out.

He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.

The petulant Cassie began to rear her head more fiercely. She wanted to hurt Red because she was hurting, and it didn't seem fair that she had to hurt alone. She wanted to scream at him and loathe all men through him, because he could never have a child, but he could make a child grow inside a woman and then leave her to die alone.

To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.

But now here I was, out in the middle of nowhere, unable to help anyone, not even myself. I was crushed to the desert floor, my face ground into the sand. Laughed at. Ridiculed. Betrayed by someone I had trusted. More than trusted. I had cared about him.

The loss of a parent is a young child's greatest fear. To be abandoned, whether through termination of parental rights, voluntary relinquishment, death, or any other means, is a child's worst nightmare come true.

The relief of giving in to destruction.