Quotes About Neglect

You've left a lot out Being in doubt you left it out Your mother Aunt Bernice in Nokomis to the west and south (?) in trailer park Dead now for years as one says You've left them out David your son Your friend John You've left them out You thought you were writing about what you felt You've left it out Your love your life your home your wife You've left her out No one is one No one's alone No world's that small No life You left it out

June recalls as a child being raised in a loveless home: "I remember climbing up on the stool in the morning to get the cereal down from the cupboard. And when I took a bath, I took it alone. I didn't have rubber duckies or anything like that to play with. My grandmother would leave me and come back thirty minutes later to see me shivering in the cold water.

There is nothing for us there.

There were signs, for sure—bruises and missing teeth—but nobody wanted to see them. If they did, they'd have to act. So they ignored them. And the beatings continued. Nobody wanted to get involved in other people's business, especially their business behind closed doors.

we didn't really lose the war, the country just lost interest.

Who cares?" Sunnie

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

He thought of all the times he could have visited, and hadn't. All those missed opportunities to call. All those times he'd forgotten her birthday.

The silence had that slack quality that speaks only of the indifference of uninhabited rooms,

If you're going to treat me like some piece of special-occasion china that gets taken out when you don't think I'll get hurt, we're—we're doomed.

she was tired of being taken for granted in ways Strike didn't recognize.

The kitchen looked like it was rarely used, except for a toaster on a counter surrounded by crumbs

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

Who would sacrifice the most valuable years of his life if he knew that he was doomed to poverty in his old age and that he to whom his youth was devoted would neglect him when he was worn out?

These children were deprived of something more important than money—love. They ended up paying for that deprivation during the remainder of their lives, and society suffered, too, because their crimes removed many people from the world and their assaultive behavior left alive equally as many victims who remain permanently scarred.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

psychological research clearly shows that people who feel underappreciated tend to resent criticism and ignore the advice they're given.

The house stank; a stench all its own pervaded every corner. It was a threnody in the key of Cat minor, with a ground-bass of Old Dog, and modulations of old people, waning lives, and relinquished hopes.

Neglect your power long enough and you'll eventually believe you don't have any.

Failure's is nothing more than the inevitable outcome of a few small acts of daily neglect performed consistently over time so that they take you past the point of no return

Focus on the Best and Neglect All the Rest

Experiencing solitude, for even a few minutes a day, will keep you centered on your highest life priorities and help you avoid the neglect that pervades the lives of so many of us. And saying that you don't have enough time to be silent on a regular basis is a lot like saying you are too busy driving to stop for gas — eventually it will catch up with you.

Many human beings spend their finest hours in a facade of satisfaction. By this I mean they think and say they are happy, but in reality they are miserable. They rationalize the fact they have betrayed their dreams, neglected their human treasures and minimized the impact they could have on the planet by telling themselves to be satisfied with what they have, instead of evolving into more.

Loretta didn't have much time left for mothering, and once I was old enough to fry my own eggs, she started leaving me home with the cat. Then the cat ran away; she didn't notice. Poor