Quotes About Neglect

He was a man too busy to flush toilets.

Rien n'imprime si vivement quelque chose à notre souvenance que le désir de l'oublier.

A lot of people—young and old— have not done a very good job of taking care of our country so we can enjoy living in it. Almost everywhere today you see the marks of the stupid and the careless who are ruining what we should all take care of for our own pleasure—and our own good.

Gods, if they're neglected, tend to fall asleep, but they never really go away.

He was ignored. Not mistreated, just ignored.

If you fail to plant DESIRES in your subconscious mind, it will feed upon the thoughts which reach it as the result of your neglect.

Mucho ir a misa, pero a nuestro señor Jesucristo aquí no le hace caso ni Dios

Decent people are killed slowly in this country. Quick deaths are reserved for scoundrels. They kill people like me by ignoring us, shutting all the doors in our faces and pretending we don't exist.

him at all. He ignored Valls's

Lark did not know how her parents would behave in public. They never came to anything, even teacher conferences. They had basically skipped Lark's life. She didn't mind. She had made her own.

It looks to me like everything has just walked off and left me

But your own tears blind you to mine. I am not neglectful of friendship, but we two squat in the same coracle, we are both swamped by the same stormy waters, I have not the gifts of a happy man. . . Often enough.

hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted

Ljudi za koje sam živjela nisu ni znali da postojim, a ja nisam priznavala postojanje ljudi koji su živjeli za mene.

We are so good together when we're not talking about what counts. And my life counts. Blake, my life is so important to me. I know that. Do you? Because he's in there having a pint on his own and I don't think you're the slightest bit interested in him. You haven't asked one question about me since I've seen you, not one. He frowned while he thought about it. That might be ok for someone else. It was ok for me for a while, but not now.

One of the very few valid criticisms of Queen Victoria is that she was not sufficiently concerned with improvement of the conditions in which a great mass of her subjects passed their lives. She lived through an age of profound social change, but neither public health, nor housing, nor the education of her people, nor their representation, engaged much of her time.

It's incredibly frustrating to forget. It must be an entirely other thing to be the forgotten

In fact, the problem with having a family at all was that nobody noticed if you were dead or alive until dinner went unmade and they found your torso floating in the dirty water behind Ikea.

You're like a rose blooming in an untended garden.

that belonged in the big pile of things that weren't my problem.

?ovje?anstvo se, tako se ?ini, napreže samo dotle dok mora o?ekivati zatupljene svjedodžbe s kojima može trijumfirati pred javnoš?u, a kad ima dovoljno takvih zatupljenih svjedodžaba u ruci, onda se zapusti.

The pain she experienced from the almost absolute obliviousness to her existence that was shown by the pair of them became at times half dissipated by her sense of its humourousness.

They seemed, like himself, to be living in a world which did not want them.

Here and everywhere be folk dying before their time like frosted leaves, though wanted by their families, the country, and the world; while I, an outcast, an encumberer of the ground, wanted by nobody, and despised by all, live on against my will!