Quotes About Neglect

Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.

I'm the biggest slob in the world. My apartment is a mess.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

When I first went to university, I did a big shop with my dad. We bought loads of stuff but it didn't occur to me that I needed to refrigerate it, so I just put it in my room. I remember thinking, 'What's that smell coming from under the bed?' It was a bag of potatoes. How long does it take for a potato to rot? Months!

I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.

Strange how a specimen like him, well cared for, healthy, free to roam the world, and blessed with a perfection of form which would surely have allowed him to breed with a greater selection of females than average, could still be so miserable. By contrast, other males, scarred by neglect, riddled with diseases, spurned by their kind, were occasionally known to radiate a contentment that seemed to arise from something more enigmatic than mere stupidity.

The fucking world is falling apart and it still doesn't rate as an emergency. Do you really think they're gonna panic over us?

So the crush withered and died the way things that aren't being fed usually do.

The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten.

The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about.

When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

Solo como un cuadro de Van Gogh bajo la mirada idiota de los turistas. Solo como la Luna que nadie ve

Dar cel ce nu are grij? de trupul s?u devine mult mai u?or o victim? a acestuia.

But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?

We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

What I cannot love, I overlook.

Hmm…now that I think about it, housecats are often coddled and petted. You don't pet me nearly enough. You must be a lax owner. How selfish of you to deprive your cat of attention.

Mas um estranho em uma terra estrangeira, ele não é ninguém; os homens não o conhecem, e não conhecer é não cuidar.

And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention

What I've learned from talking to so many victims of traumatic events, abuse, or neglect is that after absorbing these painful experiences, the child begins to ache. A deep longing to feel needed, validated, and valued begins to take hold. As these children grow, they lack the ability to set a standard for what they deserve. And if that lack is not addressed, what often follows is a complicated, frustrating pattern of self-sabotage, violence, promiscuity, or addiction.

one hand, there are those who openly dismiss the philosophical aspect

Oupa took no notice of us just as he took no notice of his real grandchildren.

cases certainly can be found of large firms and multinational corporations (MNCs) that may have undermined the efforts of the poor to build their livelihoods, the greatest harm they might have done to the poor is to ignore them altogether.

You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of whatever idiot has accepted this message for sending in the first place. No one cared about you, and everyone at headquarters was an idiot. It wasn't your fault, no one listened to you. Headquarters had even started an Employee of the Month scheme to show how much they cared. That was how much they didn't care.