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Quotes About Neglect

Sînt fl?mînzi de p?mînt descul?ii... ?ip? foamea în ei... Nimeni nu le aude ?ip?tul, ori, cine-l aude, îndeas? c?ciula pe urechi ?i se face c? nu-l aude — c?ciula de astrahan...
~ Zaharia Stancu
What am I going to do? Not read, anyway… I hate reading! Finally change that leaky shower head? Never! At least this way there's somebody to cry over my fate.
~ Zidrou & Aimée de Jongh
He doesn't care about his own life so he doesn't care about the lives of others.
~ Deborah Levy
It is this sexual excess, no doubt, that has caused Jan to neglect his work. Lots of spermatozoa enfeebles a man and thins his blood. - Jacob
~ Deborah Moggach
Bad enough, but he was limp and vacant, passive and beyond caring. A walking invitation to the kind of man who doesn't need an invitation, prefers not to be invited.
~ Declan Burke
God is busy and has no time for you.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Our house stood alone on a hill off Penyon Road, about half a mile outside the city limits. It was old, crippled, and diseased - an emblem of poverty and neglect. Nature had tried to cure it by embracing the rear frame with herbs, roots, and a jumble of foliage which spilled over from the surrounding woodland. Nature had failed, and in frustration she sought to destroy the house by eroding the very foundation on which it stood.
~ Delores Phillips
When they feel invisible, it's easy for them to leave.
~ Beverly L. Kaye
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.
~ John Quincy Adams
Learning is the art of ignoring.
~ Elias Canetti
Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.
~ James Hillman
Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.
~ Donald Trump
But how is that different from any other godforsaken stretch of coast half off the grid?" There were still dozens of them all across the country. Places that were poison to real-estate agents, with little infrastructure and a long history of distrust of the government.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
hair-raising attempts at destruction that included stabbings, careful burnings, deprivation of soil and water, introduction of parasites, general neglect, the emanation of hateful vibes, verbal and physical abuse, and much more.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Jedynym rozwiÄ…zaniem dla Å›rodowiska naturalnego jest zaniedbanie, które wymaga naszego upadku.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The only solution to the environment is neglect, which requires our collapse." A
~ Jeff Vandermeer
En ocasiones las personas ofrecen su luz pero esta parpadea y es extremadamente tenue, porque nunca antes se ha ocupado nadie de ellas. Porque han dado demasiado de sí mismos y ya no les queda nada.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
We grow up accustomed to certain roles and certain ways of being perceived. If we grow up in a family in which we are abused, neglected, yelled at, constantly criticized, or dominated, then that is the environment that feels most comfortable to us. Unhealthy as it may be, most people seek and create environments that feel familiar and similar to the ones where they grew up.
~ Jeffrey E. Young
No one gives a shit if you write a book or not.
~ Jeffrey Ford
My dear Miss Parker, aside from the old priest, and now you, no one has lived in that building for three years!
~ Jeffrey Konvitz
During my formative years, my mother had this annoying habit of taking me into shoe stores and forgetting all about me.
~ Jeffrey McDaniel
here we have the perfect gift to share with the world, just bursting to be opened, and we keep it sitting there, wrapped tightly in a box, growing old and gathering dust. Oh the waste! The agony! Meanwhile
~ Jen Sincero
By the way, honey, you look wonderful. You've lost so much weight! What diet are you on?" I stop in the doorway, breathe in through my nose, out through my mouth. "I'm caring for a dying man, Mother. A dying man you haven't asked me about once since I stepped foot in here, or even called to say hello. Somehow, I've lost my appetite.
~ Jennie Shortridge
I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could give me - your admiration, your acceptance, your love, your forgiveness. I forgot to love you for yourself.
~ Jennifer Ashley