Quotes About Neglect

The silent voices, unheard even in the twentieth century–the prisoners, the institutionalised patients, the casually abused–are silent in the historical record because they had very little influence over their personal fate or their city's shape.

And lastly Jung states (almost prophetically): A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.... Whenever we give up, leave behind. and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.92

This casual neglect, a lack of care and worry, helped him feel easy in this quiet and leisurely part of the city.

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.

We all have things we cannot deal with," he said. In the end you just look away and pretend they're not happening." - Johannes Forsell

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

Upset over neglect and unreliability reflects a conflict over investment of time and effort. It takes effort to be on time. Reliability requires relinquishing time and resources that could be channeled toward other goals. Neglect signals a low investment, indicating that the man lacks the depth of commitment necessary to perform acts that require even minimal cost for the woman's benefit.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.

When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

It turns out we're very good at not seeing things

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.

They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.