Quotes About Abandonment

Delivered to oblivion...growing and flowering with incense and weeds to the sullen whine of nasty flies... I loved deserts, burnt out orchards, faded boutiques...I dragged myself down stinking alleyways... General, if there's an old cannon left, aim for the glass of splendid shops, into the living rooms...make the city eat its own dust.

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I might be the child abandoned on the wharf setting out for the high seas, or the farmhand, following the path whose top reaches the sky.

True conversion is the renouncing of the world, the flesh, and the devil; and it is at our peril that we lust after the things we have abandoned. As Matthew Henry (1662-1714) says, "Drawing back is to perdition, and looking back is towards it.

Onni Rellonen skrittet med isnende kaldt hjerte mot løa, en gammel og grå bygning som ikke lenger kunne brukes til annet enn å gjøre slutt på livet.

Ante semejante atropello, los diputados republicanos juraron morir heroicamente antes que traicionar a la patria; pero tan ejemplar resolución duró hasta que oyeron el primer tiro al aire. Entonces todos salieron corriendo, incluso arrojándose por las ventanas. Y de esa forma infame y grotesca fue como acabó, apenas nacida, nuestra desgraciada Primera República.

In solitude, the mind and body Are not troubled by distraction. Therefore leave this worldly life And totally abandon mental wandering.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Se a sociedade nos abandona, a solidão é tratável, mas, se nós próprios nos abandonamos, ela é quase incurável.

The house was an empty tank full of grief. Their empty ghosts floated everywhere they were not.

Why should i care? Cause you werent there when i was scared. I was so alone.

The reason that we feel jealous is that we feel abandoned. This is absurd, because I am a grown-up person capable of looking after myself. I cannot, literally, be abandoned.

You brought me to a sanitarium? Thinking of having me admitted?" "Fortunately for you, it's closed.

We were driven off like rats in five minutes.

My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.

There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you're ready to let it go.

My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.

I thought 'I Am Legend' did a really great job of it, and 'Omega Man,' that concept of an empty world.

Never abandon a friend — either yours or your father's. When disaster strikes, you won't have to ask your brother for assistance. It's better to go to a neighbor than to a brother who lives far away. —Proverbs 27:10

Now nothing is happening and nothing will ever happen again. Money has taken away everything.

Oh, cruel abandonment! My bones turn to dust beneath the gaze of your ever-mocking smile!

As for other acquaintances, there is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room; human beings, mere men and women, without furniture, without anything to offer you, who have ceased to count as anybody, present an embarrassing negation of reasons for wishing to see them, or of subjects on which to converse with them.

I am sorry to add that she was sobbing bitterly, with such abandonment to this relief of an oppressed heart as a woman habitually controlled by pride on her own account and thoughtfulness for others will sometimes allow herself when she feels securely alone.