Quotes About Abandonment

The "guest house" was a creaking carcass of a shed that was being slowly sucked into the muddy ground.

But this time I don't care. I'm here for six months to make my money and then she can fuck off. No way am I going to take any more abuse or give any extra effort to my work. As a matter of fact, I'm going to be a bad employee. I'm going to relish being one of those workers who lingers at the watercooler and disappears just when you need them. Bad idea for her to start out on the wrong foot with me.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

To Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing and his men, the first sign of Hooker's intention to abandon the Fredericksburg-Falmouth front came in the form of a telegram received at Second Corps headquarters on June 6, which directed that the soldiers of the corps have three days' rations in their haversacks, and that all wagons be loaded with stores and the trains put in readiness for any order to move. The order, the telegram stated, "may possibly be given to move early tomorrow."8

Many, if not most, good ideas die young -- mainly from neglect on the part of the parents, but sometimes from over-fondness. Once well started, an opinion had better be left to shift for itself.

Cuando uno lo ha abandonado todo, puede decirse que le queda la contemplación del vacío.

They like the god stuff. It makes them feel special, and it makes them feel less lonely about having been left behind at the end of things

Now that they got you little girls they won't have no use for me," she said, and a single tear snaked down her cheek.

Still, it's an interesting technique--leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And *in* someone else.

The kind of cold that comes when the heart gives up on itself and abandons hope, a cold no fire on on earth could ever warm.

You did not lose! You gave it away of your own free will. You gave me away. You gave away love.

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!

Fueron exactamente diecinueve arañazos y doce dentelladas. ¿Que cómo lo sé? Feliz pregunta, lector sagaz, al filo de abandonarte de nuevo en los tiempos modernos, después de este paréntesis retrospectivo. Lo sé porque fui yo. Yo fui quien la atacó. Dicho esto, regreso a mi aparente silencio. Te estaré observando.

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

You crossed the water, left me ashore It killed me enough, but you wanted more You blew up the bridge, a mad terrorist Waved from your side, through me a kiss I started to follow but realized too late There was nothing but air underneath my feet" —from the song "Bridge" on the Collateral Damage album

The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell will decay to mold Don't know why I bother calling, ain't nobody answering Don't know why I bother singing, ain't nobody listening "Disconnect" Collateral Damage, Track 10

Really? Was that how you quit me?

Cruzaste las aguas, me dejaste en la orilla; eso ya supuso mi muerte, pero aún quisiste más. Volaste el puente, cual terrorista rabiosa, y desde tu ribera me mandaste un beso. Empecé a seguirte, pero advertí, demasiado tarde, que bajo mis pies sólo había aire.

I was tired of being in the charge of cruel and clueless adults. The world was upside down. The adults had abandoned their roles. They'd surrounded themselves in a cocoon of ignorance--and then told us we were screwed up. We couldn't trust them anymore. There was nobody out there watching out for us, taking care of us. We had to look out for ourselves.

I'm a planet without a sun, I'm already cold and dead - Cody

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

The faint odour of rotting cheese suggested that sandwiches had been lost in the trackless wastes of paper and never found again.

It was sad and lonely to be left. You'd go to church and stand there for some time. The school had a chapel. The maser would be there with maybe two or three other students. You had to kill time before dinner. I would go to the reception hall and play the piano. There was no one there, total emptiness.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.