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Quotes About Abandonment

I have to remember it... or Genma-sama'll come to hate me...and then he'll abandon me... What can I do, to become the "Himi" that you want...? What do I have to do to bring back my memories? There's nothing. In my heart, there's nothing...
~ Yuki Shimizu
His friends were probably right when they called it a pitiful little vacant house. He wondered if that had anything to do with the emptiness of his own world.
~ Yukio Mishima
Even as he spoke, the boy appeared to have forgotten the subject, as if it was a balloon he had abandoned to the sky.
~ Yukio Mishima
Are you afriad to tell them the truth? Are you afraid they'll abandon you? You're afraid because you don't trust your followers. If all you want is to lead your fight and take this secret to your grave, then keep it to yourself. But if you want to TRUST them, and earn their trust in return, if you want to fight alongside them, then you must tell them. If they leave you, it means you weren't worth it from the start. (Unten to Sarasa)
~ Yumi Tamura
Inside the woods is an abandoned hotel. Trees grow in the lobby and up through the rooms. Limbs jut out through the windows. It looks like outside inside. I climb the trees through 1000 rooms. I look for you in each of them. You're a long shiny line.
~ Zachary Schomburg
I turned with the receiver to the wall as I absorbed the fact of Ivan's voice, and when I glanced back at the man on my sofa, he seemed like a scrap of paper, or the handle from a broken cup, or a single rubber band—a thing that has become dislodged from its rightful place and intrudes on one's consciousness two or three or many times before one understands that it is just a thing best thrown away.
~ Deborah Eisenberg
It would take a while for me not to think of the Greek language as the father who walked out on me
~ Deborah Levy
Whatever you most fear- abandonment, rejection, failure, loss, humiliation, has already occurred to you. The threats you perceive around you now, or coming at you in the future are the long shadow being cast by your past.
~ Deepak Chopra
That's something like the sensation of losing someone. You are never in your life so alive, and so aware of being alive, yet so isolated and abandoned, as when a loved one is taken from you. The planet will move right through you like wind through stalks of grass.
~ Dennis Bock
When they feel invisible, it's easy for them to leave.
~ Beverly L. Kaye
Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.
~ Kirsten Olson
Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.
~ Donald Trump
Everything added to her and everything taken away had led to that moment and from her perch she had radiated love for every animal she could not help, with nothing left over for any human being.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Even as Control said it, he had known that he was also telling her he didn't mind leaving her there, alone, on the other side.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Better not to think of people living here, of it being empty Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and yet now you want someone to remember, to understand what was lost, even if it was little enough.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Jedynym rozwiÄ…zaniem dla Å›rodowiska naturalnego jest zaniedbanie, które wymaga naszego upadku.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Many people who have the Dependence lifetrap also have the Abandonment lifetrap. In fact, it is difficult to imagine a person having the Dependence lifetrap and not having the Abandonment lifetrap. People who have the Dependence lifetrap believe that they cannot survive alone. They need a strong figure to guide and direct them through the activities of day-to-day life. They need help. Abby is an example of a person who has both lifetraps.
~ Jeffrey E. Young
My dear Miss Parker, aside from the old priest, and now you, no one has lived in that building for three years!
~ Jeffrey Konvitz
Instead, she curled up into ball and stared at the pink wallpaper where a potrait of her as a child stared back at her.That girl was smiling and happy.She had a family. Now she had none.
~ Jen Calonita
When I feel betrayed, I cut that person out of my life to protect myself from getting hurt anymore. So I stopped seeing Jennifer after that, and I lost one of the only people in my life who truly seemed to have loved me. A
~ Jenna Jameson
I try to think of something to say. Something nice, but not so wildly untrue that I'll embarrass the both of us by saying it. But it's too late. The door slams. The sound echoes through the room. He's gone. Once again.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.
~ Jennifer Egan
So now I am alone and adrift having no idea where Stella and Iona have gone, and this gives me a fading feeling I get sometimes when I think Stella has forgotten me for good, like I'm a particle floating invisibly through space and I might float so far away that I stop existing even to myself. How will I get back?
~ Jennifer Egan
They were open but empty-looking, like the windows of a house no one lived in. At
~ Jennifer Egan