Quotes About Neglect

David cannot recall being hugged, kissed, or told he was loved by his parents. The only physical comfort he had was from "Mammy," an African-American housekeeper who recognized David's needs and provided solace. On Saturdays she'd take him to a movie, where she was allowed to sit with him in the whites' section. He is convinced that, "If I hadn't had Mammy, I would have been in much worse shape.

David longed for recognition for his good grades, but his Depriving, Perfectionistic parents rarely made even a comment. "I did everything I was supposed to but they never approved. They never asked me how I felt, they just told me how I should react. Rules were more important than feelings." On family car rides, David's parents plunked him in the backseat and talked about him as if he weren't there.

It just makes me so goddamn mad," she said, still looking away from Saul. "Yes." "I mean, it's like he didn't even count. He wasn't important. Do you know what I mean?

It is the nature of trauma that, when left untreated, it deepens over time.

La proprietà di cui si abusa è spesso fonte di disgrazia.

la guía con que cuentan éstos para aprender a controlar sus propios impulsos y el ejercicio de la empatía constituyen elementos fundamentales del desarrollo emocional. Por el mismo motivo, el descuido, el abuso, la falta de sintonía, la brutalidad y la indiferencia pueden dejar su negativa impronta profundamente grabada en los circuitos nerviosos de la emoción.15

Simple neglect, studies find, can be more damaging than outright abuse. A survey of maltreated children found the neglected youngsters doing the worst of all: they were the most anxious, inattentive, and apathetic, alternately aggressive and withdrawn.

I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.

when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.

On the sidewalk, a discarded refrigerator with its face ripped off, and on the curb an old mattress with wire intestines hanging out of its belly.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

The worst feeling is to be ignored once, then twice, then again and again by someone you consider precious.

Someday you will realize that you defaced something that was so beautiful. You ignored someone who really cared and hurt a heart that really loved you.

One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty…Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'Samurai'.

People don't die of old age, they die of neglect.

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

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

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

What repair, what return, will undo the consuming self-belittlement that inherits, disvalues, neglects, and ruins the decent small farm- the earned, kept, and cherished good of a lifetime's work gone- to break the heart? And yet the light comes. And yet the light is here. Over the long shadows the late light moves in beauty through the living woods.

When we are isolated and poor, we are not infrequently forgotten.

when everything belongs to everybody nobody will take care of anything.

The Library is desolation, it has a smell of its own of stagnation and death.