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Quotes About Neglect

a bird no one wants. he's mine. my bird of pain. he doesn't sing. that bird swaying on the bough.
~ Charles Bukowski
My eyes were blue and my shoes were old and nobody loved me. But I had things to do.
~ Charles Bukowski
The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care
~ Charles Bukowski
televizyonda Bogart Haftas? var, diyorum kad?n?ma. düÅŸünsene, bir hafta boyunca her gece bir Bogart filmi! bugün çöp toplama günü, diyor, çöpü d??ar? ç?kard?n m?? avuçlar?m? bitiÅŸtirip bir sigara yak?yorum, duman? içime çekiyorum, ona gözlerimi k?sarak bak?p duman? aÄŸz?mdan ve burnumdan yavaÅŸça üflüyorum: sen ç?kar.
~ Charles Bukowski
You realize how many people there are on this earth without a chance? Because of where and how they were born? Because they had no education? Because they never had anything and never have and nobody gives a fuck . -South of No North
~ Charles Bukowski
The priest read his thing. I didn't listen. There was the coffin. What had been Betty was in there. It was very hot. The sun came down in one yellow sheet. A fly circled around. Halfway through the halfway funeral two guys in working clothes came carrying my wreath. The roses were dead, dead and dying in the heat, and they leaned the thing up against a nearby tree. Near the end of the service my wreath leaned forward and fell flat on its face. Nobody picked it up. Then it was over.
~ Charles Bukowski
Like all too many dictators, Cahokia's rulers focused on maintaining their hold over the people, paying little attention to external reality. By 1350 A.D. the city was almost empty. Never again would such a large Indian community exist north of Mexico.
~ Charles C. Mann
An important part of responsibility is to not neglect it. I wonder how often we have neglected the authority Jesus has given us by not applying His power to illness, weather, poverty or other life situations that He expects us, as His agents, to deal with? I wonder how many people Jesus heals directly because we do not participate? Worse yet, how many go unhealed because we who have been commissioned to operate in Jesus' authority and power have neglected our responsibility?
~ Charles H. Kraft
This is what happens when people like you get all carried away with follow-through: if you gardened like me and just bought a bunch of plants, brought them home and let them die you wouldn't be in this kind of trouble." "You don't have any tomatoes," she pointed out. Which is true enough, I suppose, but then—neither does she.
~ Cheryl Peck
For four years he lived in Brooklyn, and four years in Brooklyn are a geologic age -- a single stratum of grey time. They were years of poverty, of desperation, of loneliness unutterable. All about him were the poor, the outcast, the neglected and forsaken people of America, and he was one of them. But life is strong, and year after year it went on around him in all its manifold complexity, rich with its unnoticed and unrecorded little happenings.
~ Thomas Wolfe
As weaponry advances, the techniques used against obsolete ordnance may be neglected or lost.
~ Timothy Zahn
There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making a commitment is it. Finish. You think it sets like a concrete platform and it'll take any strain you want to put on it. You're committed. You don't have to prove anything. In fact you can afford a little neglect, indulge in a little bit of sarcasm here and there, isolate yourself when you want to. Underneath it's concrete for life. I'm a cow in some ways, but you're an idiot.
~ Tom Stoppard
Somewhere between retina and object, between vision and view, his eyes draw back, hesitate, and hover. At some fixed point in time and space he senses that he need not waste the effort of a glance. He does not see her, because for him there is nothing to see.
~ Toni Morrison
Everybody knew what she was called, but nobody anywhere knew her name. Disremembered and unaccounted for, she cannot be lost because no one is looking for her, and even if they were, how can they call her if they don't know her name? Although she has claim, she is not claimed. In the place where long grass opens, the girl who waited to be loved and cry shame erupts in her separate parts, to make it easy for the chewing laughter to swallow her all away. It was not a story to pass on.
~ Toni Morrison
Taught me a lesson I should have known all along. What you do to children matters. And they might never forget. She's got a big-time job in California but she don't call or visit anymore. She sends me money and stuff every now and then, but I ain't seen her in I don't know how long.
~ Toni Morrison
I did not know why I destroyed those dolls. But I did know that nobody ever asked me what I wanted for Christmas
~ Toni Morrison
Convinced that there is little they can do, they do little.
~ Tony Judt
I smell of decay, the acrid smell of a lonely person, a person with no respect or regard for themselves.
~ Tracey Emin
While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she was eating or the chilblains on her hands and feet. She was suffering inside.
~ Tracy Chevalier
Sometimes we do very little outreach in our community and don't let our light shine because there is an area of
~ Kevin G. Harney
the way he'd slowly starved his relationship of oxygen.
~ Kevin Wignall
It only took one generation of neglecting God to turn a faithful family into a faithless one.
~ Kim Vogel Sawyer
You wonder how much abuse you can take and still love someone. You wonder how long they can treat you like nothing but still want them back. You wonder how many years it will take to forget how things used to be, how long you'll burn yourself with that tiny ember of hope before the deluge of their neglect drowns it. A long time, in my case. A long, lonely time.
~ Kristan Higgins
You wonder how much abuse you can take and still love someone. You wonder how long they can treat you like nothing but still want them back. You wonder how many years it will take to forget how things used to be, how long you'll burn yourself with that tiny ember of hope before the deluge of their neglect drowns it.
~ Kristan Higgins