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Quotes About Abandonment

It was fascinating to watch that agile mind trying one opening after another, testing and rejecting all the theories that Stormgren himself had abandoned long ago.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
And now you know why I love no one. Why I never have and never will. Heed my words well. Love only destroys.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope.
~ Shirley Jackson
People leave this town, he said. They don't come here.
~ Shirley Jackson
Hugh Crain," Theodora said, "you were a dirty old man, and you made a dirty old house and if you can still hear me from anywhere I would like to tell you to your face that I genuinely hope you will spend eternity in that foul horrible picture and never stop burning for a minute.
~ Shirley Jackson
You say you're going like a house afire, Mendl? Why don't you jump into the flames! I wouldn't come see you in Boiberik if you were on your deathbed!
~ Sholom Aleichem
There was no one to see her off, no one for her to care about, no one who cared about her. That's not true, Tracy told herself.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit
~ Sidney Sheldon
bir insana vazgeçilmez olduÄŸunu hissettirdiÄŸinizde ilk vazgeçeceÄŸi kiÅŸi siz olursunuz
~ Sigmund Freud
To re-establish man at the heart of his destiny is, they claim, to repudiate all ethics. However, far from God's absence authorizing all license, the contrary is the case, because man is abandoned on the earth, because his acts are definitive, absolute engagements. He bears the responsibility for a world which is not the work of a strange power, but of himself, where his defeats are inscribed, & his victories as well.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird, When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone. - Sentry
~ Sophocles
Don't let them go begging, abandoned, women without men.
~ Sophocles
As much as Sajida once loved him, she thought it unjust that her daughter, forsaken by her father, should have any physical likeness to him at all.
~ Sorayya Khan
I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.
~ J.R. Ward
I never went dancing again.
~ Tilly Dunn, Exit Stage Left
sometimes we need the world and all the people on her to abandon us so we can turn to the One who will never leave us stranded.
~ Aisha Mirza
I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.
~ Ranata Suzuki
Peor and BaalimForsake their temples dim.
~ John Milton
Se me ocurrió la idea de dejarlo ir todo, y lo hice. Dejé de programar citas de negocios y renuncié a intentar que la gente hiciera lo que yo quería.
~ John Purkiss
You can rot here without feeling it.
~ John Rechy
I have come to believe that government monopoly schools are structurally unreformable. They cannot function if their central myths are exposed and abandoned.
~ John Taylor Gatto
He felt his inadequacy to the goal he had so recklessly chosen and felt the attraction of the world he and abandoned. He grieved for his own loss...
~ John Williams
How contrary an animal is man, who most treasures what he refuses or abandons! ("Augustus")
~ John Williams
For I have returned to that learning which I abandoned many years ago, and it is likely that I should not have done so had not I been condemned to this loneliness; I sometimes can almost believe that the world in seeking to punish me has done me a service it cannot imagine.
~ John Williams