Quotes About Abandoned
He's just a pore lonesome wife-left fellar.
~ Nelson Algren
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I had more or less abandoned the idea of an electroweak gauge theory during the period 1961-1970. Of the several reasons for this, one was the failure of my naive foray into renormalizability.
~ Sheldon Lee Glashow
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Government regulations required that an elevator be installed for the use of the disabled. Mother would not allow an elevator. The city offered to pay for the elevator. Its offer was refused. After all the negotiations and plans, the project for the poor was abandoned because an elevator for the handicapped was unacceptable.
~ Christopher Hitchens
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Then we are living in a place abandoned by God, I said, disheartened. Have you found any places where God would have felt at home? William asked me, looking down from his great height.
~ Umberto Eco
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Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead A light to burn all the empires So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be And I'm in love with all of those vampires So you can leave like the sane abandoned me
~ Gerard Way
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Lonely he had lived, so far as his kind was concerned, and lonely he would continue to live.
~ Jack London
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And this time the house didn't look ramshackle, it looked charming. It no longer looked abandoned and run-down; it looked more a product of carefully cultivated neglect. The
~ Theresa Weir
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In this pittifull (or rather pittilesse) perplexitie stood London, forsaken like a Lover, forlorne like a widow, and disarmde of all comfort.
~ Thomas Dekker
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Not merely godforsaken, I feel forsaken by everyone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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But now it's like I'm not really here. I'm just a witness, wayward and alone.
~ Chuck Wendig
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She was a stray after all. A stray not only in its plantation meaning-orphaned, with no one to look after her-but in every other sphere as well. Somewhere, years ago, she had stepped off the path of life and could no longer find her way back to the family of people.
~ Colson Whitehead
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They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs.
~ Colum McCann
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The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed. ..
~ Virginia Woolf
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You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
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the armada sailed into the open waters of the Atlantic, the abandoned conspirators
~ Laurence Bergreen
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Abandoned, the Sabrosa estate fell into disrepair, and another house rose on the site.
~ Laurence Bergreen
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Portuguese did not maintain a permanent settlement there. A small abandoned customshouse served as the sole evidence of the Portuguese occupation.
~ Laurence Bergreen
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In the morning, Magellan dispatched a rescue team. When they found only the abandoned longboat
~ Laurence Bergreen
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Don't allow anyone to tell you that there's "no market" for a career as the eccentric yet mysterious caretaker of an abandoned lighthouse nestled in fog on the coast of a long-forgotten seaside town.
~ Keith Wynn, @ravens_rhapsody
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In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.
~ Robert Reich
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America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.
~ Joseph Losey
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I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.
~ Susan Straight
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I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
~ Peter Dinklage
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Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building a steel mill, but in 1941, soon after he assembled all the components, Allied armies invaded Iran, and the project had to be abandoned.
~ Stephen Kinzer
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