Best 152 quotes in «abandonment quotes» category

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

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?

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.

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

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

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

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

The appeal to force is the abandonment of reason.

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

The only absolute attainment is absolute 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.

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.

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

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

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

Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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

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

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.

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.

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

A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned.

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

Abandonment is ugly.

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.

For all the alcoholics and addicts out there, you are loved, stopped being so stubborn and come in from the cold. Wherever you are, there is a brighter light in your sight. Move towards it every day, and keep moving towards it. Even the worst and strongest addiction is a choice—a choice not to fight, to give up, to indulge the impulse, or instead to accept the hands offered you to help, even from strangers, even from the state. Don’t hate those who gave up on you, it wasn’t their fault, you just wore them down. Show them they were wrong about you. Your troubles are meant to mold you into something better, not destroy you, so FIGHT! Another day comes for the better if you’re standing in the right spot for it to hit you. Find the right spot and stay there until it does.

But Claire had long ago realized, even after those constant dreams of her mother leaving faded away, that when you are abandoned as a child, you are never able to forget that people are capable of leaving, even if they never do.