Quotes About Abandonment

A savage sense entered me, of being of such small account in the world that I wasn't to be helped, that priest and woman and man had put out an edict that I wasn't to be helped, I was to be left to the elements, just as I was, a walking animal, forsaken. Maybe it was then that some part of me leapt away from myself, something fled from my brain, I don't know.

There was one irrevocable truth in their business: for people to become invisible, they had to break permanently with their old habits. A gambler must never be seen in a casino again, a musician must never pick up a guitar and a sportsman never run again

La segunda tentación consistía en la amargura, en el propio abandono masoquista al odio, al sufrimiento y a un pesimismo sin barreras.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Abandonar a la persona con la que se ha vivido una década puede ser tremendo, pero no menos tremendo es para el que ha sido abandonado pedirle a aquel con quien ha vivido una década que vuelva.

You'll probably throw me out eventually. Next week..or twenty years from now... Sooner or later, you'll get worn out... And leave me for real... Maybe I'll gaze, dumbfounded, at a life with nothing left. That's okay, I'll watch you leave...knowing our love has died. I'll adorn the road of death with flowers. Since that's all I can do.

There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that ' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.

I'm just afraid if I get used to leaning on you and you decide to walk away, I'll... fall over.

Nobody rides trains anymore!

Yesterday your heart was broken because they left you

I am so ashamed before my friends—to be known to be left by the one who supposedly knew me best, each hour is a room of shame, and I am swimming, swimming holding my head up, smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed, like being naked with the clothed, or being a child, having to try to behave while hating the terms of your life.

the flesh no one seems now to care to touch.

We'd known enough girls jilted by Americans promising marriage and plane tickets. Two girls in my neighborhood had babies by men who had returned to the United States and left false addresses. The faces of their mixed-race kids declared their humiliation to everyone.

Well, my daddy left home when I was three,And didn't leave much to Ma and me,Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.Now I don't blame him because he run and hid,But the meanest thing he ever did wasBefore he left, he went and named me Sue.

The reason it's so painful when someone disappears is you have to face the fact that the person you loved had probably left you a long time before he grabbed his coat and scrammed.

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots.

One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.

GET YOURSELF TOGETHER DRINK TILL YOU DROP FORGET ABOUT TOMORROW AND HAVE ANOTHER SHOT

I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.

I want you back, he said. And he abandoned himself to the words he was speaking.

She gave up the struggle. She gave up everything. Nothing mattered any longer except this moment. She raised her head and sought his mouth.

Had he done the right thing to let her go without a word or a letter? Was he right to leave it so, to disappear from her life?

There is a terrible pain,' she said softly, 'about being abandoned by someone who loves someone else more than you. A pain and an emptiness and a determination never again to give anyone that power.

Every one of them has a story, and every story begins with a man who failed her. A husband who came home from the war, good for nothin' but drink. A father who didn't come home at all, or a stepfather who did. A brother who should have protected her. A beau who promised marriage and left when he got what he wanted, because he wouldn't marry a slut. If a girl like that has lost her way, it's-because some worthless no-account-sonofabitch left her in the wilderness alone!