Quotes About Abandonment

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

The whole thing made Bill lonely as the last pig in a slaughterhouse line.

She was theirs, in body if not in spirit. And yet she had abandoned them, after they had abandoned her. They valued what Kresnov was, but they did not value her. Nor did they value the others of her kind, her friends among them.

My mother took off when I was little. I want to hunt her down and tell her how proud I am.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

However, the path itself must eventually be abandoned, just as you abandon a boat when you reach the other shore. You must disembark once you have arrived. At the point of total realization, you must abandon Buddhism. The spiritual path is a temporary solution, a placebo to be used until emptiness is understood.

The bottom line is, Gat bailed when I got hurt. The bottom line is, it was only a summer fling. The bottom line is, he might have loved Raquel. We lived too far apart, anywway. I never got an explanation. I just know he left me.

I never got an explanation. I just know he left me.

Aveva abbandonato ogni piano d'azione; l'amore è la cosa migliore.

But he saw only dying light and a dead land. He uttered no prayer, believed in no deity, and knew that the past was devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

The clumsy system of public gatherings had been long since abandoned; neither Vashti nor her audience stirred from their rooms. Seated in her armchair she spoke, while they in their armchairs heard her, fairly well, and saw her, fairly well.

The abandonment of personality that is a possible prelude to love

It is well to be remembered with love. It is not so very dreadful to be forgotten entirely. But if we shall resent anything on earth at all, we shall resent the consecration of a deserted room.

Hava bir tuhaf. Hayal kurmaya yönelik bir tutum var havada. Kaçmaya müsait bir bulutluluk. Bir balkon olsa ?imdi. Kimsenin seni tan?mad??? bir ?ehirde. Kahvenin içine konyak kendili?inden dü?se, kocaman bir h?rkan?n içinde olsan. Bir ?eyi terk etmi? olsan. Mesela bir ?ehri. Mesela kendini, yüzünü filan mesela.

a book with a bookmark inside implies someone has merely gone away, and will be back to finish it soon. Removing the bookmark takes on a horrible finality

He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

There is no shelter in you anywhere.

Plainly, she is not coming back. I can tell by the pattern of the cracks in the plaster. There's a code there, a message. Like the secret message in the final bars of Shostakovich's fifteenth and last symphony. Faint cryptic signals, like the clicking of a telegraph key, against the remote and sustained monotone of the violins—a song from outer space. What was he trying to tell us?

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.