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Quotes About Abandoned

Elhagyatottak vagyunk, akár a gyermek, és tapasztaltak, mint az öregember. Durvák, szomorúak és fölületesek vagyunk – azt hiszem, el vagyunk veszve.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
used to. But now I prefer to think that God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don't fit well together anymore, it's all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.
~ Rohinton Mistry
horses faded away. Maybe it had served time as an office. It was impossible to tell. It
~ Lee Child
I was in a booth, at a window, reading somebody's abandoned newspaper about the campaign for a president I didn't vote for last time and wasn't going to vote for this time.
~ Lee Child
tumbledown shack
~ Lee Child
completely deserted.
~ Lee Child
The apartment was now a ghost:
~ Libba Bray
The building he took her to was an abandoned foundry out in the countryside and rain leaked in everywhere.
~ Donald Wells
He had been imprisoned inside the least secure of the residences, and it was deserted at this late hour, as expected.
~ Douglas E. Richards
My bones are loose as clothespins, as abandoned as dolls in a toy shop and my heart, old hunger motor, with its sins revved up like an engine that would not stop.
~ Anne Sexton
I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.
~ will.i.am
I'm the ruins of buildings that were never more than ruins, whose builder, halfway through, got tired of thinking about what he was building.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.
~ Martha Griffiths
Marchand dreams that in one magical and endless night the rejected manuscripts make love every way possible with his abandoned manuscript: they sodomize it, rape it orally and genitally, come in its hair, on its body, in its ears, in its armpits, etc., but when morning comes, his manuscript hasn't been fertilized. It's sterile. In that sterility, Marchand believes, lies its uniqueness, its magnetism.
~ Roberto Bolano
Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods. Do you? I believe they are not here, yes. It's a faith of sorts.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
half done, she left her establishment topsy-turvy
~ Louisa May Alcott
I haven't got any mother, you know.
~ Louisa May Alcott
It was already there," he said. "Someone left it behind. They didn't want it. The super said they couldn't even rent the apartment for a few weeks because it takes up the whole bedroom and nobody wanted to pay to take it out. Can you believe it? A Steinway." "Lucky that you play," she said. She
~ Alice McDermott
She was hollow and lost and abandoned up.
~ Alice Sebold
The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films.
~ Ed McBain
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
~ Anonymous
The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.
~ Tom Stoppard
The wilderness is littered with forgotten stories that will never be retold.
~ Roderick Townley
Tonino and I went to look at a ruined church with a tree growing inside it. Beautiful. There is a peasant's house beside it. On the way back Tonino showed me a villa, on the outskirts of Rome, which has been abandoned because of ghosts. It looks amazing
~ Andrei Tarkovsky