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Quotes About Abandonment

Those wire baskets where you leave your paperwork to die...
~ Jordan Castillo Price
Or maybe...their biggest fear is that they will get close to you again, and you'll go and drop dead.
~ Jordan Sonnenblick
Vão alegres. Levam navalhas e punhais nas calças. Mas só os sacarão se os outros puxarem. Porque os meninos abandonados também têm uma lei e uma moral, um sentido de dignidade humana.
~ Jorge Amado
In no time, you find yourself left without civilization.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
The gods are leaving.
~ Jose Rizal
Windows were broken. Where not broken they were boarded up, had been for years: the rust from nailheads had written long, sad farewells down the salt-silvered planks.
~ Joseph Hansen
In the stinking dark forest of splintery posts under the pier lay pizza tins, beer cans, cigarette wrappers, condoms—the joyless detritus of American joy.
~ Joseph Hansen
the country of the poor can be abandoned no longer. For i dread what is growing in that country now. I fear we shall reap a venomous crop
~ Joseph O Connor
His name is Brokenkit," I said, my voice faltering. Lizardstripe nodded, seeing the bend in his tail, like a broken branch. That's where every cat would think he'd gotten his name. But the truth is, I named him for the feeling in my chest as I left him there, as if my heart were breaking in two, as if my life had broken down the middle.
~ Erin Hunter
Bramblestar is dead," he announced. "For good. StarClan has forgotten us." "No!
~ Erin Hunter
Couldn't StarClan do anything to help you?" he asked. "StarClan!" The SkyClan cat spat out the word, lashing his tail. "StarClan betrayed us. They allowed the other Clans to chase us out like rogues. When we left the forest, I vowed that I would never look to the stars again." "A Clan without warrior ancestors?" Firestar was bewildered.
~ Erin Hunter
All dressed up with nowhere to go. Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don't run away, it's only me.…
~ Ernest Cline
Lo más impresionante de aquellos días, y más todavía de aquellas noches, era la soledad, el profundo sentimiento de soledad, de aislamiento, de saberse sin ningún habitante a quién sabe cuántos kilómetros a la redonda;
~ Ernesto Cardenal
You took me on because I was helpful in your political cause. Because I could aid in your experiments. Beyond that I was of no use to you, and so you abandoned me." I struggled to get my breath. "I was nothing to you. You never saw me as equal. You were more concerned that slavery should be a moral stain upon white men than by the actual damage it wreaks on black men.
~ Esi Edugyan
No quiero que adoptemos. Bastante difícil debe ser ya tener en casa un hijo propio. No quiero el de otra persona. - ¿Y si nos compramos un perro? - No vamos a comprar ningún perro. Adoptemos uno. Hay muchos perros abandonados que necesitan un hogar.
~ Etgar Keret
My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.
~ Ethlie Ann Vare
BE OPENED ONLY AT SPECIFIC ORDERS AND UNDER CURRENT OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS. In the lower right-hand corner were the words DESTROY BEFORE CAPTURE OR ABANDONMENT OF AIRCRAFT.
~ Eugene Burdick
relinquishment is prerequisite to fulfillment
~ Eugene H. Peterson
I'm fascinated by the ruins and remains of industrialisation.
~ Johann Johannsson
I gave up hunting a long time ago.
~ Dan Bilzerian
If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.
~ Barbara Steele
Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.
~ Alan Dershowitz
If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.
~ Markus Persson
Hell is not to love any more, madame. Not to love any more!
~ bernanos georges iii