Quotes About Abandonment

Marie felt an incredible coldness. She had stopped pursuing, even on an imaginary level, the one person she loved in the world. Sadie was no more. Sadie was dead to her. But she was not mourning Sadie, she was mourning the part of her that had ever loved Sadie. She had put aside a love for a father and now she was setting aside the love of her youth. In the coming days she knew she would become a monster. She stood on the balcony letting the metamorphosis happen.

destined to founder in the ennui of a nothingness of insignificance that incubates this abandonment of Being that is proper to beings.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.

Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.

There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

Your days still half-opened, crackle like the fires to come. Outside. The earth. Wind. Night. Unfold for you. Listen to their sounds. They have sung me seasons that never abandoned me.

He's used to the freedom of neglect; he likes it.

I felt dry as if someone had skinned me. I was not the bones and meat, but the cast-aside skin. The heat had hollowed me.

Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.

l'amour, pour toi, ne peut être que quelque chose de léger, revêtant la forme d'un jeu et dénué d'importance ; tu redoutes de t'immiscer dans une destinée. Tu veux t'abandonner sans mesure à toutes les joies du monde, mais tu ne veux pas de sacrifice.

the ruin insufficiently ruined

wie ein Taucher sogar, der schon ahnt, dass das Seil nach der Außenwelt abgerissen ist und er nie zurückgeholt werden wird aus der lautlosen Tiefe.

Ho perduto la donna che ho amato senza lottare, senza credere in me e in lei. Poco importa quello che ho imparato dopo, non conta quanto io sia cambiato, allora commisi questo delitto, il delitto di lasciarla sola.

It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth.

The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

The truth is that men can have several sorts of pleasure. The true pleasure is the one for which they abandon the other.

Huh-uh," Archy said, not trying to charm or work her anymore, the deep 1978 El Cerrito–apartment sullenness starting to seep out of him as he remembered how Luther and Valletta used to leave him there all night by himself, nothing on the television but Wolfman Jack and some movie where a shark-toothed devil doll was biting Karen Black on the ankles.

It's a sinking ship, he said. You ought to be grateful that they just threw you overboard.