Best 152 quotes in «abandonment quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

The appeal to force is the abandonment of reason.

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

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Abandonment is ugly.

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

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

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.

And yet it felt like an invasion of the part of his body, the physical sense that was most precious: something that betrayed him and also refused to abandon him.

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 I left him there, this saver of lives. I left him on his knees peering into the eyes of a stranger he’d rescued from oblivion.

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.

Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.

A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned.

Being abandoned is awful but saying 'don't leave me' is even worse.

Boundary construction is most evident in three-year-olds. Boundary construction is most evident in three-year-olds. By this time, they should have mastered the following tasks: 1. The ability to be emotionally attached to others, yet without giving up a sense of self and one‘s freedom to be apart, 2. The ability to say appropriate no's to others without fear of loss of love, 3. The ability to take appropriate no's from others without withdrawing emotionally. Noting these tasks, a friend said half-joking, "They need to learn this by age three? How about by fourty-three?" Yes, these are tall orders but boundary development is essential in the early years of life.