Quotes About Neglect

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

If I ever have children I will let them grow up like the weeds in our flower garden. Nobody worries about them and they grow so high and thick-while the roses in the beds grow poorer and poorer every summer.

Skipping meals is terrifically convenient: It gives one lots of time to brood and hate oneself.

The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life.

At least 30,000, possibly more, German POWs may have died in French captivity, of starvation and malnutrition, of disease and neglect and mistreatment. Around 5,000 are thought to have been killed during work on clearing minefields alone. The International Red Cross certainly considered the French, after the Russians, the most reprehensible of the major powers in their treatment of German prisoners of war.

We're very bold in our proclamations of our own moral rectitude, but then we neglect to even keep our own toilets clean.

How could such adoration and devotion ever be a bad thing? Because so many dog owners are unworthy of it. We are shamed by our dog's loyalty, and we know, deep in our hearts, we will never measure up to it. In a fractured, impersonal world like ours, such a precious gift should be treasured, and yet so many of us take it for granted. Worse of all, we turn it against our dogs, repaying loyalty with mistreatment and neglect.

Chicago? It caught fire over a hundred years ago... an' no one's ever bothered to put it out.

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?

Sometimes it's too easy to forget the things you should remember — and far too easy to remember the things you really should forget.

Discomforting, like finding a three-week-old sandwich behind your bed, when you swore you'd finished the darn thing.

Ten years was not enough. Stone should not crumble after just a decade of neglect. The filth should not have piled up so quickly—not with so few inhabitants, most of whom were incapacitated. It was as if Elantris were intent on dying, a city committing suicide.

He avoided stepping on the plants—though he wasn't sure why he bothered. The crops hardly seemed worth the effort. Wan, with wilted brown leaves, the plants seemed as depressed as the people who tended them.

this betrayal usually happens long before the other ones. I'm talking about the betrayal of disengagement. Of not caring. Of letting the connection go. Of not being willing to devote time and effort to the relationship.

Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.

That is about as close as one can get to the greatest loneliness of all, he thought. Being all alone in the world. The final human being, forgotten about.

Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

Oh we're not loved. We're not even hated. We're only just sweetly ignored.

You see, people forget you

Mama doesn't care for me, she said very simply. Not really. Child as she was, her little long history was in the words.

Nature cared not a jot.

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.