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Quotes About Abandonment

There, in a place of peace in the lonely abandonment of a cold windswept cave; there, under the floor of the world, He Who is born without a mother in heaven, is born without a father on earth.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
greatest poverty of all—the spiritual poverty of seeming abandonment by God:
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Her letters from this period and her later accounts of the events reveal that following the accident she felt virtually abandoned.
~ Gannit Ankori
Could I anticipate the enmity of those for whom I encountered such opposition? If they had been willing, I should have gained the victory. But the head faints when it is abandoned by the other members. If they had been wise they would have seen that in attacking me they were attacking their own privileges and serving princes to their own servitude.
~ Thomas Becket
With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
~ Adam Beach
After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.
~ Christopher Columbus
Braddock looks every bit the deserted battlefield it truly is: 90 percent of our town's people, buildings, businesses, and homes are gone and what remains, bears witness to the torment.
~ John Fetterman
In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.
~ Lynn Nottage
I have always been scared of confrontation. My therapist says it stems from my fear of abandonment.
~ Nikki Glaser
Olvidaría el padre a su hija más pequeña? ¿Sólo porque no sabe hablar la dejaría sufriendo su mudez junto a las piedras? ¿Sólo porque cuando anda se derrumba y pierde su camino como ciega? ¿La olvidaría el padre sólo porque es pequeña?
~ Rosario Castellanos
Naquela noite eu chorava pela minha solidão, pelo abandono que me esperava, quando eu seria como o menino da mata ou o menino na rua vazia.
~ Rubem Alves
O menino abandonado não me abandonou. Entrou dentro de mim e mora comigo. Me faz sofrer. Me dá ternura. Sempre que vejo uma criança abandonada, eu sofro. Quereria poder protegê-la, cuidar dela. Eu me enterneço porque a criança abandonada que mora em mim está sofrendo.
~ Rubem Alves
Afinal, todos somos crianças abandonadas. Nos momentos de solidão noturna, de insônia, tomamos consciência de que estamos destinados ao abandono, àquele tempo quando será inútil chamar "meu pai" ou "minha mãe".
~ Rubem Alves
I think that if there is a hell it's just a place where you're left all alone, with nobody around you. Man, when you're alone you don't have to burn, just being by yourself for all of time would be the worst punishment the Old Man could give you
~ Rudolfo Anaya
It is strange how, once graves are broken and overgrown in this way, then the people in them are truly dead. The Indian Christian graves at the front of the cemetery, which are still kept up by relatives, seem by contrast strangely alive, contemporary
~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
No relatives, no friends, nobody. Doesn't that seem strange to you? Someone disappears and no one gives a damn?
~ Rutu Modan
?çimizde ?eytan var... Can k?r?klar? var. Nefret var, yalanlar var... Bir yan?m?z bizi çoktan terk etmi?, kaç?yor... Melankoli ve hüsran var...
~ Sabahattin Ali
Yahu ne oluyor bunlara? Hemen ölüyor muyuz? Ölsek ne olacak sanki... Onlara ne? Ben onlar için neyim? Ben onlar için hiçbir ?ey de?ilim. Hiç bir ?ey de?ildim... Senelerden beri ayn? evde beraber ya?ad?k. Bu adam kimdir diye merak etmediler... ?imdi çekip gidece?imden korkuyorlar...
~ Sabahattin Ali
Ben... Ate? gibi yanan kalbimin s?cakl???n? ne kadar sarf etsem bu so?uk tabakay? ?s?tamayaca??m? anl?yorum. Ad?mlar?m hiç kimseninkine uymuyor. Herkes beni yolun ortas?nda b?rak?veriyor... Yolun ortas?nda... Herkes...
~ Sabahattin Ali
It's funny how we always search for reasons not to love—fear of suffering, fear of abandonment—but the love of life, oh, how much you can take for granted until you realize that, one day, you're going to lose all of it.
~ Marc Levy
I know it doesn't sound logical but that's the way it is ' said papá. 'There are people who try to control the people they love or try to make them feel insecure or inferior or unworthy. They can be very hurtful but they're the sad people. They're afraid of being abandoned they're afraid of not being loved.' pg 116
~ Marcelo Figueras
Basta abandonar todo o passado, confiar o futura à providência e dirigir a ação presente para a piedade e a justiça.
~ Marco Aurélio
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except the pollen of the weeds that grow up outside the window, blowing in as dust across the floor.
~ Margaret Atwood