Abandoned Quotes

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

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

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.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God

What abandoned course is that?

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

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

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

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

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.

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

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.

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

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

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

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

A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

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

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

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

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.

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

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

Love can be put off, never abandoned.

Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.

A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.

[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

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

When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.

One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

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.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

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

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

Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.