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“He made small talk on the way about how he was abandoned as a child and will only rest easy once he is avenged.…

— Harvard Lampoon

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

— Mario Balotelli

One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

— Theodore Millon

The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would…

— Immortal Technique

“The ship had come sweeping in over a dark and somber landscape, a terrain so desperately far removed from the heat and light of…

— Douglas Adams

“Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an abandoned child’s.”

— Katherine McIntyre

“Being abandoned by a child or children is the most traumatic experience ever suffered by a parent. It’s a life-changing event, best- described as…

— Sally Miller

“Newton was born on Christmas Day, 1642, so tiny that, as his mother told him years later, he would have fit into a quart…

— Carl Sagan

I guess this is growing up, tears stained pillows every night, staring naked at yourself in the mirror, waiting for the a text that…

— Kayla

“Sometimes you must embrace the feeling of being abandoned, until your deepest self warms to the thought of you being its closest companion.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If…

— Martha Beck

“Sympathy: That self-delusional feeling of assuming that someone you know, who is ignorant, depressed, frustrated, and losing much in life, and maybe even terribly…

— Robin Sacredfire

“Be honest with the Lord. If you’re afraid, say so. If you’re feeling abandoned, tell Him. He already knows every sin you’ve committed and…

— Toni Sorenson

“While others might feel manipulative, I feel powerless. Sometimes I just hurt so bad from the mean things that people do to me, real…

— Paul T. Mason

“Maybe the kid gravitated to Zeb for the same reason children like dinosaurs: when feeling abandoned in a world of forces beyond your control,…

— Margaret Atwood