Quotes About Neglect

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

It's better to be hated than it is to be ignored

But problems, like dog poop left in the rain, rarely get better just by ignoring them.

problems, like dog poop left in the rain, rarely get better just by ignoring them.

He'd completely neglected the subject: there had been plenty of material on the current non-Fae situation, but hardly any on the Fae themselves, their political implications, and their ongoing plans for world domination—since Fae always had plans for world domination. (It was more dramatic that way, after all.)

The faint odour of rotting cheese suggested that sandwiches had been lost in the trackless wastes of paper and never found again.

Sorry, but you're mistaking me for someone who gives a damn.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

She was the kind of person who would see a pot overflowing on the stove and come and tell you about it, instead of picking it up and moving it off the burner. And then she would be proud of herself for acting quickly in a crisis.

You see, nobody cares about me except you. You don't know what that's like. You've always had people who cared. You've always had people . I've never had anybody. No wonder I feel frustrated.

Your best friends are in trouble and you say 'of course' and forget them instantly.

That this world is a place of horror must affect every serious artist and thinker, darkening his reflection, ruining his system, sometimes actually driving him mad. Any seriousness avoids this fact at its peril, and the great ones who have seemed to neglect it have only done so in appearance.

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your own business and not be interested anymore.

the credits still go—unproductively—to the armed forces and vital areas of the social good are allowed to deteriorate. That's what I call decay.

lo amaban sin sofocarlo y lo trataban con la negligencia habitual de esa época, antes de que los niños se convirtieran en proyectos.

From the Bronx to Buffalo, cities and towns in New York have been plagued by what are commonly called zombie properties. These are homes that residents abandon - often after they have received a foreclosure notice - which then languish, uncared-for, until the foreclosure process is complete.

The dust and silence of the upper shelf.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.