Abandoned Quotes · Page 9

“There is a big difference in being left and being forgotten.”

— Keep Breathing

I had told one of my friends that I felt like I might be gay or that I just wasn't into girls,…

— Calum Scott

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

— Maria Montessori

The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.

— Cormac McCarthy

America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.

— Joseph Losey

I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

— Bob Dylan

“Unclaimed or abandoned bodies. There could be no stronger definition of loneliness.”

— David Grant Urban

Peres came with a worldview. I also came with a worldview that I have not abandoned and that guides me still.

— Reuven Rivlin

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman,…

— Jon Kyl

The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might…

— John Marshall

Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment.

— Moon Jae-in

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

— Uta Hagen

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of…

— Ajahn Brahm

Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns…

— Peter S. Beagle

To me Vivien Leigh was a tragic heroine of classic proportions: chosen, blessed and abandoned by the gods. Obstinately she tried to…

— Elaine Dundy

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for…

— Marcus Aurelius

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now…

— Seneca the Younger

Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that…

— Max Horkheimer

When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night…

— Maurice Sendak

Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you…

— David Gilmour

Man, I'm here alone, without anyone talking to me. i've been abandoned, and this is once again another time to the all…

— She's_gone

It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a…

— Banksy

I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand…

— Mark Shields

“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“We know nothing. Gone is the memory of the stories we heard as children, now so much seaweed; still to come is…

— Fernando Pessoa

Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power…

— Boris Brasol

She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only…

— Toni Morrison

Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink…

— Diana Gabaldon

“The first of these houses appeared to be occupied. The next two were vacant. Dingy curtains, soot-grey against their snowy window-sills, hung…

— Walter de la Mare

How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of…

— Nicholas Wolterstorff

Whereas there can be but one Baptism, they think they can Baptize; they have abandoned the fountain of life, yet promise the…

— Cyprian

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

— Gertrude Atherton

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Livy

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

— Seth Godin

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

— Matthew Quick

“Happily there seemed to be an actual human choosing songs with abandoned disconnect.”

— Patti Smith

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

— George Orwell

“Don’t joke with that friend who stood by you when everyone else ran off.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson