Quotes About Abandonment

They need you until they don't need you.

In death, she would be treated the way she had been in life, left alone and forgotten.

I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us.

Here there are no folds in the fields, only wide open plains, scarcely a hill in sight. And instead of church towers they have spires that thrust themselves skywards like a child putting his hand up in class, longing to be noticed. But God, if there is one, notices nothing here. He has long since abandoned this place and all of us who live in it.

In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.

parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.

The armies indoctrinate you and leave you here and they fuck off somewhere else to cause trouble, inky-dinky parlez-vous.

Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.

And what if---what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you're nothing?

Even where love has run thin the child's soul musters strength... the rush of purpose to make a life worth living past abandonment building the layers up again over the torn hole.

Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

Yes, go on. Leave. You're always coming and going. The rest of us are stuck here. Do you think he'd still love you if he knew who you are? He doesn't really care—only when it suits him.

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

When you are missing something you've left behind, it could be dead or lost so that you never find it again. You never really know, when you don't have something, what its condition is. That's why you grieve about it to the same degree- because you just don't know.

and she can't wait to get rid of me and she never wants to see me again as long as she lives.

God alone is man's true good, and since man abandoned him it is a strange fact that nothing in nature has been found to take his place...Since losing his true good, man is capable of seeing it in anything, even his own destruction, although it is so contrary at once to God, to reason, and to nature.

Trudging on foot, loaded with sacks, bundles, and babies, young mothers who had lost their milk, driven out of their minds by the horrors of the journey, abandoned their children, shook the corn out of their sacks onto the ground, and turned back. A quick death, they had decided, was preferable to a slow death by starvation. Better to fall into the clutches of the enemy than to be torn to pieces by some beast in the forest.

As a sad, grey dawn broke over the hillside he came upon a ruined cottage [named Broken-Heart Farm] which did not so much seem to have broken its heart, as its neck.

If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty?

If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty? Yet the simple fact is that if I remain in these Halls I will be alone.

He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.

It was as if a complex, sophisticated society of fifteen million people simply walked away from their lives one day and never came back, leaving nothing but deserted cities and abandoned architectural masterpieces in their wake.

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.

That he was working instead of spending time with me shouldn't have rankled—I knew how busy he was—but it did. I felt abandoned and needy, which told me I was regressing into familiar bad patterns. The simple fact was, Gideon and I were the best and worst things that had ever happened to each other.