Quotes About Abandonment

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

She told him that he had survived by doing the opposite of all the others. Where they abandoned, he saved. Where they were cruel, he was kind. Where they betrayed, he was faithful.

Todos los hijos del alba, la prole del alba, no serán de vosotros; sólo los grandes habladores se os abandonarán. Los del Daño, los de la Guerra, los de la Miseria, vosotros que hicisteis el mal, lloradlo. El libro del consejo I SAN JUAN, el Fiador, el que estuvo presente cuando aparecieron por primera vez los mundos; el que dio el sí de la afirmación para que echara a caminar el siglo; uno de los

As Cherokees fled, abandoning their towns and fields, the soldiers seized, killed, and scalped women and children, taking no prisoners.51

To be broken means to have no rights before God and man. It does not mean merely surrendering my rights to Him but rather recognising that I haven't any, except to deserve hell. It means just being nothing and having nothing that I call my own, neither time, money, possessions nor position.

Every old ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summer-house was alive with cobras.

Más tarde, cuando se hubieron marchado todos los panaderos, fontaneros, electricistas, carteros y porteros, la ciudad de piedra perdió su razón de ser, el sentido de su existencia. No era más que un esqueleto desnudo pulido por el viento, un hueso roído que sobresalía de la tierra en dirección al sol

I am alone, as I have always been; abandoned not by men, that would not pain me, but by the happy spirits of joy who in countless hosts encircled me, who met everywhere with their kind, pointed everywhere to an opportunity.

History is unkind to those it abandons, and can be equally unkind to those who make it.

and she went on loving him, even though he had so casually abandoned her. You were my everything, she wanted to say to him, you were my sun and moon, and who will hold my head now, who will kiss my lips, who will be a father to our children, but he was a great man destined for the halls of the immortals, and these squalling brats were no more than the jetsam he let in his wake.

One's goal is the shedding of mental obstacles that prevent one from being flooded with the glorious universal, Love as Being. It is a goal, therefore, that requires of us the absolute and irreversible abandonment of reason, for love is without reason, above it and beyond it; it comes without a rational explanation and lives on when there is no reason for it to survive.

If you start reading a book and you don't like it you always have the option of shutting it. At this point it loses its capacity to offend you.

This is who we are. We sail away from the place we love and then because we aren't there to love it people go with axes and burning torches and smash and burn and then we say, Oh, too sad. But we abandoned it, left it to our barbarian successors to destroy.

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago - and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since - is no one to consult on questions of ethics. Indeed, to judge him on the basis of his works is highly invidious undertaking.

We set the table, but no one ate.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.

Well, Monsieur Laporte placed her near her Majesty in order that our poor queen might at least have someone in whom she could place confidence, abandoned as she is by the king, watched as she is by the cardinal, betrayed as she is by everybody. Ah, ah!

these groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

She doesn't have a mother anymore. There's no one to whom she's the most important person in the world.

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

Perhaps in the cold my heart would freeze and I would care nothing for those I was forced to abandon.