Abandoned Quotes

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

— Tony Meloto

My computer is littered with abandoned projects.

— Nick Hornby

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

— Francisco Goya

“Yeah, well my walking body abandoned me and flew south”

— Dorothea Benton Frank

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

— Matthew Quick

“Love from the abandoned heart of a nonexistent dog.”

— Charles Yu

I've never abandoned the novel.

— V. S. Naipaul

Everybody's been abandoned, and left a little empty handed

— Nickelback

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

— Martha Beck

“Abandoned and forgotten houses often hide the greatest stories!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

— Pasquier Quesnel

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

— Richard Wagner

“Everyone just abandoned us there the whole time and walked on by. It was absolutely terrible. As”

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Julianne Hough

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

— David Fincher

“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”

— Nathan Reese Maher

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time…

— Lauren Oliver

Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

— Harold Rosenberg

Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to…

— Lawrence Blume

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first…

— Howard Nemerov

“If she finished her work—hah, now there was a fantasy, this work would never be finished, only abandoned, or, all right, passed…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

New York is full of abandoned churches. A Godless city, but full of superstitions on every subject--art, money, sex, food, health.

— Mason Cooley

Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned.…

— Bill O'Reilly

The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did notthe value of…

— Ida Tarbell

Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned,…

— Alan Watts

I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and crack-heads, ... I lived in the ghetto until I was like 19. I…

— Chris Rock

Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held…

— Kelley Armstrong

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“The future holds no hope or meaning to me. I know that by killing myself other people will suffer, but why go…

— Julie Anne Peters

I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All…

— Winston Churchill

Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up…

— Michael Nutter

And just think, fellow Southrons, what kind of a Confederate nation we could have, if after independence, politicians abandoned equivocation and spoke…

— Charley Reese

In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a…

— Harry Belafonte

I glean a few times a week, and it's all about the subject line. I look for the lyrical, "Billowy Red Scarf…

— Sophie Blackall

I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't…

— Douglas Coupland

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled…

— Charles Dickens

But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some…

— Lionel Shriver

Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had…

— Pablo Neruda

Though a man may be found in a weak state, that does not at all mean that he has been abandoned by…

— John of Shanghai and San Francisco

...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned…

— Lynne Truss