Abandonment Quote by A.D. Aliwat

“How can one who has been abandoned—truly, no one left in sight—be less alone?”

— A.D. Aliwat

“Where was he? Somewhere in there he lost the first phase of youth, like the first phase of a rocket; it had fallen, depleted,…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.”

— Alexandra Katehakis

“Loneliness is a source of loathsome ice-cold suffering, the suffering of unreality. At such times we need people to teach us that we're not…

— Peter Handke

“The revelation of loneliness, the omnipresent, unanswerable feeling that I was in a state of lack, that I didn't have what people were supposed…

— Olivia Laing

“The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.”

— John Grogan

“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others…

— Carl Jung

“In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting together,” but they never really got there…For everyone searched his neighbor’s…

— William Olaf Stapledon

“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he…

— John Steinbeck

“...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“Being alone was lonely, but there was an even greater loneliness sometimes when he was surrounded by a lot of other people who were…

— Daniel Wallace

“In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting together,” but they never really got there. Everyone was terrified of…

— Olaf Stapledon