Quotes About Neglect

Siento que dejé pasar el amor. Que no lo cuidé. No lo podé. No le quité las hojas muertas. Lo vi nacer, crecer y dar un bello fruto que no tuve la precaución de cuidar para que se reprodujera para siempre. No, lo dejé caer en la tierra y permití que se pudriera.

I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet.

It had become easier to lie about most things because it didn't hurt as much when he ignored me.

It had become easier to lie about most things because it didn't hurt as much when he ignored me.

It is sad to see anyone neglecting their body no matter who they are and what they do. You simply cannot be healthy or look great on the outside if you are not healthy on the inside.

It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.

Umbrellas are so small and sad and easy to forget.

She's hiding and no one else sees. She's dying and no one else notices.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

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

May the gods ignore you.

No mommy's kisses and no daddy's smile. Nobody wants me, I'm nobody's child.

Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to.... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.

Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.

She won't think anything about it.

It is the interest of every man to live as much at his ease as he can; and if his emoluments are to be precisely the same, whether he does or does not perform some very laborious duty, it is certainly his interest, at least as interest is vulgarly understood, either to neglect it altogether, or, if he is subject to some authority which will not suffer him to do this, to perform it in as careless and slovenly a manner as that authority will permit.

I'm not down with the kids, though, am I? And you still haven't answered my question. What's an SEP?" "Someone else's problem, Sean," Matty said, with a heavy and significant sigh.

Don't make much ado about nothing.

She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .