Quotes About Abandonment

Once upon a time, there was a little girl in a big house who loved her father so much she was sure he would never leave her. But he did. And now this.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.

in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.

I read an essay by a little girl ... She wrote,' I am nothing and nobody. My cat was stuck to the wall. I tried to pull her off but they threw my cat away.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for pain that he sobbed ; it was because he was all alone, because he had been driven out, alone, into this skeleton world of rocks and moonlight.

Holiness, on the contrary, is the total denial of the separative self, in its creditable no less than its discreditable aspects, and the abandonment of the will to God.

Nous sommes un cimetière à la dérive.

Mma Ramotswe had been understanding. Men who sired children and then failed to accept responsibility for them were anathema to her, and she reserved particular disapproval for those who then completely disappeared. She

My goddesses! Where now? Forsaken? Oh hearken to my call, I rue: Are you the same? Have others taken Your place without replacing you?

The man is a cabin, poorly kept.

Yeah, well my walking body abandoned me and flew south

I prayed she would haunt me forever. Just because she was dead, she had no right to desert me.

I never trusted any man not to find someone else; to stay with me if he had another option. to not find something in me that would have him heading for the hills. that was the other reason for not thinking long-term- when someone walked out, as they invairiably did, it wasn't too big a shock. a disappointment but nothing, I hadn't been expecting.

Before their hurried flight from the city two weeks earlier, the Taliban had left the weapons and smeared feces on the walls and windows. Every photograph, every painting, every rosebush had been torn up, smashed, stomped, ruined. Nothing beautiful had been left behind.

The worst feeling isn't being lonely, it is being forgotten.

Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.

When the wrath of God is revealed in the world, it is revealed as God "lets go" of a culture

Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.