Abandoned Quotes

532 Abandoned quotes by 450 unique authors

I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's… — will.i.am
In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes… — Chuck Palahniuk
Poems are never finished - just abandoned — Paul Valery
Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to… — Mark Helprin
There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and… — John Irving
The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he… — Peter S. Beagle
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for… — Vladimir Nabokov
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge… — Anne Frank
The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own… — Jerry Spinelli
The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even… — Immanuel Kant
We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this… — Carolyn Heilbrun
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God — John Eldredge
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 be so bad,… — Douglas Coupland
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of… — Cormac McCarthy
In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be… — Albert Schweitzer
When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self. — Sue Monk Kidd
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in… — Carl Sagan
This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values.... — Laurie Halse Anderson

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