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Quotes About Neglect

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
~ Patrick Ness
You always assume you're the least-wanted person there. The one everyone else could do without.
~ Patrick Ness
The Field isn't really much of a field, it's more like a property plot that someone never built on because they died or lost it in a divorce or something...
~ Patrick Ness
Arthur had been, at best, an indifferent father. When Denise, his daughter with Marietta, was in high school, she had to "make an appointment" with his secretary if she wanted to speak to him,
~ Unknown
La música es una amante orgullosa y temperamental. Si le dedicas el tiempo y la atención que se merece, es toda tuya. Pero si la desairas, llegará un día en que la llamarás y ella no contestará.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A thin layer of dust covered everything, and I doubted anyone had been in the room for decades. I have a vast weakness for secret things.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Sus excrementos era todo lo que daba al mundo; ni una sonrisa, ni un grito, ni un destello en la mirada, ni siquiera el propio olor.
~ Patrick Süskind
Here is joy and neglect. A little mescal. A little jacking off, but mostly just work. —This is how I live, I am thinking.
~ Patti Smith
Half-empty paper coffee cups. Half-eaten deli sandwiches. An encrusted soup bowl. Here is joy and neglect. A little mescal. A little jacking off, but mostly just work. —This is how I live, I am thinking.
~ Patti Smith
One step into a living space and one can sense the centrality of work in a life. Half-empty paper coffee cups. Half-eaten deli sandwiches. An encrusted soup bowl. Here is joy and neglect. A little mescal. A little jacking off, but mostly just work. This is how I live, I am thinking.
~ Patti Smith
But when Samuel Berkovic finally found the answer to the question of what had actually caused the problem, no one noticed. Not a single newspaper, magazine, or radio or television program carried the story.
~ Paul A. Offit
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.
~ Unknown
When Azazel began to be neglected, Satan rose into existence.
~ Paul Carus
When you allow the immature to dictate the terms of relationships, you are giving them the green light to exploit, neglect, or abuse you.
~ Unknown
partial sum is correct within an error less than the first term neglected.
~ Unknown
chainlink fences topped with barbed wire, vacant lots covered with broken beer bottles, and Doberman pinschers with psychopathic personalities
~ Paul Levine
It will be recorded that the dead in the first decade of the calamity died of our indifference.
~ Paul Monette
They may vacillate between over-involvement and neglect, depending upon their moods and emotional needs at the moment. They may only pay attention to the children when the kids are doing something to meet the borderline parents' needs. Some parents with BPD try to cope with their own feelings of inadequacy by demanding that their children be perfect. Children may then feel worthless when something goes wrong.
~ Unknown
One night at the Purveses', the table was set with a feast that hardened and grew cold because Jock's mother had tipped back so much gin she'd forgotten the cook had called us in long before. She listed in the darkening courtyard and finally leaned into a potted palm and closed her eyes. No one else seemed to notice or care.
~ Paula McLain
Sí, te preocupas de los sentimientos de todos, menos de los míos –afirmó Alexandr, con un tono mordaz. –No
~ Paullina Simons
For the want of a nail a horseshoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; for the want of a horse the rider was lost; for the want of a rider the battle was lost; for the want of a battle, the kingdom was lost. And all for the lack of a horseshoe nail.
~ Unknown
Look away, look away, look away …
~ Percival Everett
All in all, he felt more milked than loved.
~ Unknown
Chronic emotional abandonment devastates a child. It naturally makes her feel and appear deadened and depressed. Functional parents respond to a child's depression with concern and comfort. Abandoning parents respond to the child with anger, disgust and/or further abandonment, which in turn exacerbate the fear, shame and despair that become the abandonment mélange.
~ Unknown