Quotes About Abandonment

Abandonment - and that's precisely what it is-is never a solution. It never takes away pain, but only adds to it.

Your blouse is whitening on the chair and your parrot Flaubert weeps in French: she left him, and he is sorry.

People who pay attention to what matters most in their lives, and who learn to ignore everything else, assume a freedom that is highly creative as well as potentially dangerous in contemporary society. Having abandoned everything of insignificance, they have nothing to lose. Apart from being faithful to their God, they no longer care what happens to them.

I've got at least four or five readers. God has not abandoned me. Why the Lord of hosts has let the ranks become so thin, who can say?

It's like leaving a version of myself alone with the pain, abandoning him.

I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squashed, and both his eyes had burst. He had bluish wings. He was the saddest ghost in the house.

As a society, we have robbed men of their protective missions. Men who seek to protect women and children are called anti-feminist, gender normative. Men have abandoned their responsibilities to the state. As for building things — well, there too, men have been told that to build is to act selfishly, without concern for the community. And young men have no male role models, since many of their fathers have abandoned them or abandoned true maleness in pursuit of vainglorious brutality.

The fraying relic of the gold-exchange standard that remained at the end of the 1920s had collapsed entirely by 1934. Britain, its inspiration and foundation in the nineteenth century, abandoned it with great reluctance and bitterness in September 1931. Twenty-five nations followed in short order. The United States refused to throw in the towel until April 1933, shortly after Roosevelt took office.

In my view, Reform and Opening Up began with the abandonment of the 'using class struggle as guiding principle' government policy of the Mao era and, in its place, a commitment to economic development and social harmony.

When we go through being rejected and abandoned like I did as a kid, you have a lot of fear and anxiety issues that you didn't even know that's what it was defined as. You live your life a lot of times living with the ghost of fear.

It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

Abandoned homes are everyone's problem, afflicting communities all over the state.

There are already too many dogs that don't have homes.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

'Still Clean' discusses the hopelessness of waiting for someone who's abandoned you.

Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street.

In Detroit there are a lot of houses they are going to demolish because no one is taking care of them.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

If you can't take care of me while I'm alive, you have made me dead anyway.

He Giving Treed me out of existence.

My parents are worried, of course, but how can I feel sorry for them, since they made me this way and then deserted me?

There was just me, left wretched in my childhood bed.

I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.

I love you forever baby, he'd said. She knew immediately then that he'd leave.