Quotes About Abandonment

The dust and silence of the upper shelf.

Oh, the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is a little lost pup with his tail tucked in!

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.

The genius of happiness is still so rare, is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

The allies we formerly relied on - the Kurds and the Syrian Democratic Forces - will have little interest in helping us after we abandon them to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

I was a guy who abandoned a TV show. I didn't care about people.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

I don't think men see any lusty sexiness in me. The appealing thing is an air of abandonment. Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.

Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.

Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

If you want something done right, just forget it.

Memory, like love, is an act of imagination, an abandonment and a possession.

me, for whatever twisted reason. That means I've gone

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other, the earth, ourselves.

I debated whether to tell them I had long since abandoned my writing career and moved into radishes and fraud, but decided the timing was wrong.

the moment I opened up this once locked box of childhood good times, I also allowed all the pain of being deserted, alone, and friendless out too.

I'm tired of caring about people who end up leaving me.

It had been years since anybody had wanted to listen again. The world had moved on. They had not.

She never considered that her mother's leaving could cause her to be stuck in a sort of darkness, afraid to move. Yeah, she needed the sunrise like she needed breath.

There is nothing more melancholy than empty festive places.