Quotes About Abandonment

Se sentía tan sola y abandonada! Un chile en nogada olvidado en una charola después de un gran banquete no se sentiría peor que ella.

Her heart and breath felt as if they had deserted her, declaring they were off to join the navy and might come back to visit in a few years if she were lucky.

There are few things sadder in this life than watching someone walk away after they've left you. Watching the distance between your bodies expand until there's nothing but empty space and silence.

I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad memory brings the light Of other days around me. —THOMAS MOORE

And so he found himself always in search of the perfect love, always unable to find it or sustain it, and predisposed to reenact his mother's bewildering abandonment of him.

Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

For years one has to put up with the feeling that people do not care, really care, about one; then one day with growing alarm, one realizes that it is God who does not care; and not merely that he does not care, he does not care one way or the other.

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

Every kid's afraid of that right? That someday you'll be left in a corner, like a toy, staring with button eyes and a broken heart.

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn't so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.

May the gods ignore you.

As for you Rose Tyler you gave up on me! That's rude. Is all I am rude and not ginger?" The Doctor

So I'm alone. I have no one. Is that what you're telling me?" - Junco, Range (to be published April 2013)

No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smile. Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child.

Usted no encuentra, pues, odioso, despreciable, que una mujer abandone a su marido y a sus hijas para seguir a un hombre cualquiera, del que nada sabe, ni siquiera si es digno de su amor? ¿Puede usted realmente excusar una conducta tan atolondrada y liviana en una mujer que, además, no es ya una jovencita y que siquiera por amor a sus hijas hubiese debido preocuparse de su propia dignidad?

There are two crucial values without which human life is simply inconceivable. One is security, a measure of security, feeling safe. The other is freedom, ability to self-assert, to do what you really would like to do and so on. They are both necessary. Security without freedom is slavery. Freedom without security is complete chaos where you are lost, abandoned, you don't know what to do.

You abandon yourself, then start looking for satisfaction. You

Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.

The lust for slave profits engulfed even some of the priests, who abandoned their preaching, took black women as concubines, kept slaves themselves, and sold their students and converts into slavery.

In China, often only the practice of infanticide makes marriage and family life possible.  In all the major towns, parents annually abandon many children in the streets or drown them like unwanted puppies.  Some people even make a living out of performing infanticide contracts for money.

I could write a guidebook about this city, this fallen city. Street by street, house by house, church by church. What happened in this building, who was betrayed, and by whom, in this apartment, who waited for whom on this street corner. And why the person never came.

The worst punishment you can give a man is to isolate him. I've never seen one who can handle it.