Quotes About Abandonment

The walls were bare wood now, unadorned by the maps and photographs. All that remained was the thumbtacks, which protruded in all directions, tilting like gravestones in a forgotten cemetery.

You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else's poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you. Those men in the desert were smarter than you. They assumed he could be useful. So they saved him, but when he was no longer useful they left him.

I can hear beer cans softly pattering down on the pavement, then nothing.

What Fitzgerald and Bridger had done was much more than abandonment, much worse. These were not mere passersby on the road to Jericho, looking away and crossing to the other side. Glass felt no entitlement to a Samaritan's care, but he did at least expect that his keepers do no harm.

Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness...But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values-the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.

I'd feel kind of like a rat abandoning ship." "Rats are intelligent mammals," he answered calmly, almost with amusement. "They will probably outlive us. Their society, at any rate, is a good deal more stable than ours.

pero no es el hecho de haber sido feliz en un lugar lo que hace dolorosa la perspectiva de abandonarlo, es simplemente el hecho de abandonarlo, de dejar atrás una parte de tu vida, por muy tediosa o incluso desagradable que haya podido ser, de ver que se hunde en la nada; en otras palabras, es el hecho de envejecer.

the truth is that men were simply giving up the ghost.

Il se sentait comme une boîte de bière écrasée sous les pieds d'un hooligan britannique, ou comme un beefsteak abandonné dans le compartiment légumes d'un réfrigérateur bas de gamme, enfin il ne se sentait pas très bien.

Tengo la sensación de ser una rata que abandona el barco. –Las ratas son mamíferos inteligentes –respondió en un tono pausado, casi divertido–. Muy probablemente sobrevivirán al hombre; su sistema social, en todo caso, es mucho más sólido.

Por eso merezco la muerte, e incluso castigos muchos más severos: acabaré mi vida desdichado, gruñón y solo, y lo habré merecido. ¿Cómo un hombre, después de haberla conocido, podía alejarse de Kate? Es incomprensible.

He experienced a severe rejection when his sister left the family when he was ten years old. She had abandoned him and he was very angry with her. Mhlengwa chose victims who represented his sister and raped them to act out the sexual fantasies of the Oedipus phase and he killed them to act out the aggressive fantasies that resulted from his anger at being rejected.

Stewart Wilken is an example of a serial killer who fixated during the oral phase. He was abandoned, and as a result deprived of being breastfed by his mother. His basic needs as an infant regarding hunger and security were grossly neglected. The oral fixation manifested already as a toddler when he bit anyone who angered him, including his adoptive mother. This is a example of oral sadism.

The abandonment by his biological mother, his lost sister, the punishment he received from his adoptive mother and the fact that his two wives apparently refused him sex, correlated with Wilken's first selection of victims, namely the prostitutes.

The women represented his sister, whom he had adored and who had abandoned him. He was still subconsciously in love with her, as she fulfilled the mother-role in the Oedipus triangle.

experienced sexual urges, but he was not socially equipped to handle them. He raped the women, who were substitutes for his sister, and he killed them because he was angry at her for rejecting and abandoning him.

Pero ahora se le ocurre comprar perro, señorito? - No lo he comprado, Domingo; este perro no es esclavo, sino que es libre; lo he encontrado. - Vamos, si, es expósito. - Todos somos expósitos, Domingo

It is known that the stars and cosmos abandoned Napolean when he abandoned Josefina. There is a universal cosmic law that there can only be one Spiritual Wife for each Master or cosmic hero. If he abandons his Spiritual Wife the stars and cosmos will abandon him.

Luís Bernardo deixou-se ficar até ao fim, sozinho, mais sozinho do que nunca, como se toda a ilha se tivesse despovoado de repente e, por entre os sinais de abandono e de solidão, ele buscasse os sinais da passagem de Ann para não morrer de loucura.

Mai bine astfel, intr-o privinta: sa-l stie mort, decat parasit de casa lui, in bratele alteia si-n asternut strain.

When God has abandoned you and the devil is snapping at your heels, what you really need on your side is a bigger devil.

While I hate to ever lose a supporter, I've come to realize that one who would abandon me over a single statement or decision I made is a person who would abandon me sooner or later anyway.

a broken toy an orphan would likely toss aside meant more than all the expensive gifts in the world.

No one answered him and he said no more. When we reached the crossroads, he looked hopefully at us as if we might relent and say good-bye. But we did not relent and as I glanced back at him standing alone in the middle of the crossing, he looked as if the world itself was slung around his neck. (3.48)