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Quotes About Abandonment

The rain is streaming down and shrouding the outside world from my sight. Long may it do so. I don't need the world any more, and no one in the world needs me. I was in the clinic while the shooting and the coup d'etat took place, but the idea of abandoning the cure had begun insidiously to grow in my mind even before the fighting started in the streets of Moscow. I have the morphine to thank for making me brave. I'm not afraid of rifle fire now.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Era la vertigine. L'ottenebrante, irresistibile desiderio di cadere. La vertigine potremmo anche chiamarla ebbrezza della debolezza. Ci si rende conto della propria debolezza e invece di resisterle, ci si vuole abbandonare a essa. Ci si ubriaca della propria debolezza, si vuole essere ancor più deboli, si vuole cadere in mezzo alla strada, davanti a tutti, si vuole stare in basso, ancora più in basso.
~ Milan Kundera
One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents husband, country, and love were gone—what was left to betray?
~ Milan Kundera
Y sabe que abandonaría en cualquier la casa de su felicidad, que abandonaría en cualquier momento su paraíso en el que vive con la muchacha del sueño, que traicionaría el muss sein de su amor para irse con Teresa, la mujer nacidad de seis ridículas casualidades
~ Milan Kundera
Desde entonces sabía que la belleza es un mundo traicionado. Sólo podemos encontrarla cuando sus perseguidores la han dejado olvidada por error en algún sitio.
~ Milan Kundera
De tr?dat îÈ›i poÈ›i tr?da p?rinÈ›ii, soÈ›ul, dragostea, È›ara, dar ce-È›i mai r?mâne de tr?dat atunci când nu mai ai nici p?rinÈ›i, nici soÈ›, nici dragoste, nici È›ar??
~ Milan Kundera
Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.
~ Richard Flanagan
Keep your love, I have no use for it anymore.
~ Richelle Mead
If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?"
~ Robert V. Taylor
There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.
~ William Shakespeare
Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
~ Bobby Darin
How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than "I'll never leave you.
~ Clive Barker
You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true love… the love that speaks the Language of the World.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I thought you were gone forever, I thought you'd walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn't.
~ Alexandra Adornetto, Halo
You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.
~ Rachel Ward, Numbers
Hope on you is worthless because you make a mark to forgot
~ ascertain solo
Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
The question for him now had become: Well, were any of them really his friends in the first place? If they could ditch him so completely over Trump, maybe they never had been. He'd often wondered: Was this really all it took? Was defending the president you had supported and voted for that immoral and outrageous? Apparently, for some on the Left this was reason enough to abandon a friend or a relative or even an acquaintance.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
I'm raising the question of whether focusing on the afterlife beyond history can unintentionally but tragically lead to the abandonment of this earth and this life.
~ Brian D. McLaren
There are two kinds of people left in the world, consumers and destroyers. We used to have creators, but they all ran away.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
Go through your life regularly and practice "creative abandonment": Consciously determine the activities that you are going to discontinue so that you have more time to spend on those tasks that can really make a difference to your future.
~ Brian Tracy
felt abandoned by her when she drank, but as long as I wasn't hurt and she was accounted for and alive, I could justify that everything was all right. Never really knowing what I was going to come home to established a constant underlying sense of anxiety in my gut. I remained unrealistically optimistic that every day would be different. Mom would keep her promise and not get drunk at that birthday or that particular function.
~ Brooke Shields