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Quotes About Abandonment

It has been estimated that one-third of the 139 square miles designated "Detroit" is now vacant-land-prairie. That's crime.
~ Alice Randall
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate. (Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here)
~ Alighieri Dante
disposal of the "inconvenient"
~ Alistair Horne
The essence of philosophy is the abandonment of all authority in favor of individual human reason.
~ Allan David Bloom
Well, there are many reasons to get finally given the push," he said of his abandonment of Klein as his manager. "Let's say that possibly Paul's suspicions were right.
~ Allan Kozinn
So you just...left?' Zach huffed. 'All the cool kids are doing it.
~ Ally Carter
She pulled away and looked at him. 'I kissed you and you left.' When Kat heard the pounding, she thought it was the beating of her heart. It was too loud, she thought. Hale was going to hear it; he was going to see it; and he was going to know how much power he had to hurt her.
~ Ally Carter
Somtimes people run to see if you'll ever come after them. -Joe
~ Ally Carter
So you just…left?" Zach huffed. "All the cool kids are doing it.
~ Ally Carter
Leaving can't be nearly as hard as being left, Cam.
~ Ally Carter
Sometimes, people run to see if anybody will come after them.
~ Ally Carter
We're not mad because you left… We're mad because you didn't us with you… You are back, Cam." Macey went into the bathroom and started to close the door. "Which means for the first time since you left, it's OK for us to be mad at you for leaving.
~ Ally Carter
María Gracia también está sola. También ha estado casada, tampoco ha tenido hijos, también la ha abandonado su pareja, tampoco ha encontrado otra, también ha vivido mejor, tampoco ha vivido nunca peor que ahora.
~ Almudena Grandes
He was a hostage of the void
~ Alvaro Mutis
La laideur, c'est rassurant : il n'y a aucun défi à relever, il suffit de s'abandonner à sa malchance, de s'en gargariser, c'est si confortable. La beauté est une promesse : il faut pouvoir la tenir, il faut être à la hauteur.
~ Amelie Nothomb
When you socially neglect a people, when you economically abandon a people, when you transfer wealth from them to the well-to-do, what are a people going to do? They're going to respond with very sad forms of despair, and that's true for everybody - I don't care what color you are.
~ Cornel West
I have never actually abandoned singing. I have sung at lots of friends' weddings and family events to keep up my classical repertoire, and I get together with a music teacher every few months.
~ Alexander Armstrong
At one time, no one would touch me with a 10-foot pole.
~ Anita Bryant
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
~ Natalie Cole
I'm collateral damage. I'm road kill. And in 72 hours, nobody is going to remember who I am nor are they going to care.
~ Eric Massa
I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
Shit," Jonny mumbled as he stepped on something soft and clinging in the doorway of the abandoned hotel. Then "Shit" again as he recognized the accuracy of his curse.
~ Richard Kadrey
His liberators were leaving the freedman to wither on the vine.
~ Richard Kluger