Quotes About Abandonment

The fact that [Jin] didn't know her mother was simply that, another fact. Her mother leaving her was like the breath that singers take at the beginning of a song. Just a thing that happened before her real life began.

To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.

Being left behind, or leaving behind...I wonder which hurts more.

I wanted a perfect man like the one in my imagination and a perfect love and I wasn't going to abandon either of these goals, however long it meant I had to be alone. 'All or nothing' was my abiding principle and I'd never accept half measures.

faced with the cold realities of trying to feed an out-of-control population, a great many of Earth's dreams had been abandoned.

There is this crazy fear I have of being rejected by anyone - even people I don't really care about. It's always better to leave them first, cut all ties, and disappear. They can't hurt me that way - no one can.

Still, for all the therapy I had, none of it ever really fixed that feeling of torn-apartness inside of me. I learned how to express myself, that was all. And, for whatever reason, identifying the root cause of my problem - like fear of abandonment or something - didn't change a goddamn thing. I could see quite clearly why I acted a certain way, but that wouldn't make me any different. I sought out craziness. I was attracted to it. No therapy could take that away.

And, for whatever reason, identifying the root cause of my problem - like fear of abandonment or something - didn't change a goddamn thing. I could see quite clearly why I acted a certain way, but that wouldn't make me any different. I sought out craziness. I was attracted to it. No therapy could take that away.

There is this crazy fear I have of being rejected by anyone—even people I don't really care about. It's always better to leave them first, cut all ties, and disappear. They can't hurt me that way—no one can. That's why I have no references. But, of course, there's always the hope that my new employer won't check them out.

Cuesta bastante trabajo creer En un dios que deja a sus creaturas Abandonadas a su propia suerte A merced de las olas de la vejez Y de las enfermedades Para no decir nada de la muerte.

Soms vermomden ze zich als vrienden, dan deden ze aardig en gezellig en lieten ze je geloven dat je een van hen was en dan liet jij, stom rund, je verdediging varen en dan braken ze je hart door je te vernachelen. Vervolgens gooiden ze je weg als een kapot stuk speelgoed.

The situation worsened when they arrived at Cadiz, because there was nothing for them there.

takes a delay of just 250 milliseconds in page loading for people to start abandoning a site.

Peretur rode now through lands abandoned by people and sharp with the scent of vinegar where apples, unpicked, had fallen and rotted in the grass.

En los subterráneos del alma, como en los desvanes de las casas viejas, no se encuentran sino ratones muertos entre muebles rotos.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

Il disparut à jamais, cet être sans défense à qui personne n'avait jamais témoigné d'affection, ni porté le moindre intérêt, non, personne, pas même l'un de ces naturalistes toujours prêts à épingler la plus banale des mouches pour l'examiner au microscope.

Así desapareció un ser humano que nunca tuvo quién lo amparara, a quien nadie había querido y que jamás interesó a nadie

Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune not to be nailed down.

If I was lonely, if I was afraid of being alone, then why abandon myself? Why run to someone else looking to give myself the thing that only I could give? I wanted to escape myself because I felt empty, and the emptiness frightened me. But obviously, I was empty because I was always running out, running away. The only way to fill the emptiness was to remain, to take up residence in myself.

The big question about the hunter-gatherers, therefore, does not seem to be 'How did they progress towards the higher level of an agricultural and politicised society?' but 'What persuaded them to abandon the secure, well-provided and psychologically liberating advantages of their primordial lifestyle?'.1

The saddest day of your life isn't when you decide to sell out. The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out and nobody wants to buy.

He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.

But one gets tired of everything, even of abusing a person. Paris abandons its puppets which it raises to the throne as quickly as it does its martyrs whom it hoists on the gibbet; in its perpetual hunger for new playthings, it never gets itself excited overly much before the statues of its heroes or at the sight of the blood of its victims.