Best 152 quotes in «abandonment quotes» category

You'll abandon me? Who will then see the attire of my nakedness in which I appear truly beautiful?

You told me mornings were the best time to break your own heart. So here I am, smoking your brand of cigarettes for the scent. I wonder if you still sing Beatles songs as you make coffee. You said your mother used to sing them to you when you couldn’t sleep, nineteen years before we met, twenty before you moved your clothes out of our closet while I was at work. By the way, I hate you for leaving all the photographs on the fridge. Taking them down felt like peeling off new scabs, like slapping a sunburn. I spent so many nights carving your body into pillows, I can promise you nothing feels like sleeping with your arm around me and your breath in my ear. Still, it’s comforting to know we sleep under the same moon, even if she’s so much older when she gets to me. I like to imagine she’s seen you sleeping and wants me to know you’re doing well.

Abandonment by a lover won't kill us. But it awakens the parts of us that remember when it could.

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that.

I am afraid of abandonment, and, if you will, in a really existential way, being exposed as a fraud. Everyone's afraid of it, and I definitely am. This is a fear that motivates. Oh, and heights. And getting stabbed.

From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.

Ford can't sell trucks currently, and GM is not selling as many cars as it would like to. That is a problem of product and pricing, not a systemic problem of abandonment by consumers.

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth.

In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?

I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online.

Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

My dad's full of encouragement and support. It just feels like abandonment and neglect.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

The appeal to force is the abandonment of reason.

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore.

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death.

Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

Abandoning civil society will leave the enemy in control, not by victory but by default.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

All is the fear, and nothing is the love, as little is the wisdom, where the flight so runs against all reason.

And just what would I gain if I go back to that place? I'll stop at a tree when I like it and I'll fly when I like it.How I live and where I live is up to me, got it? -Kagura

And so he found himself always in search of the perfect love, always unable to find it or sustain it, and predisposed to reenact his mother's bewildering abandonment of him.

And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

All night I see that abandonment is me, that the sole sobbing voice is me. We can search with lanterns, cross the shadow's lie. We can feel the heart thud in the thigh and water subside in the archaic site of the heart. All night I ask you why. All night you tell me no.

Abandonment is ugly.