Best 193 quotes in «abandoned quotes» category

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.

If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.

I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. I've written a series of mermaid poems in the last few years. The first one was called "The Straightforward Mermaid" which arose from my delight in that word combination. After that, I decided that future mermaid poems would have to be words ending in "d" or "t," which led to "The Deadbeat Mermaid," "The Morbid Mermaid" and so forth . . .

In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.

It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others.

It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything Id attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasnt up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Most of the time I ask, "Why have I forsaken God?" I look at myself and ask that question when probably the better question is to say, "Where are you God, and I'll let you in." Instead of thinking that you've abandoned God, push yourself in the other direction like, "God, how can I get closer?

Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.

One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.