Abandoned Quotes

532 Abandoned quotes by 450 unique authors

She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a… — Marguerite Duras
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy — Ashleigh Brilliant
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. — Ayn Rand
You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker… — Unknown Author
Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in the face of… — Holly Lisle
We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once… — Jeffrey Eugenides
He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down… — Anais Nin
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God. — Junot Diaz
Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives… — Gerard Way
It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only… — Jacqueline Carey
We made mad love shadow love random love and abandoned love. Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder. — Warren Zevon
Percy," my father said, "what exactly do you mean?" "Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned… — Rick Riordan
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has… — C.S. Lewis
No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the… — David Wroblewski
A book is never finished; it's abandoned. — Gene Fowler
Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible… — Marilynne Robinson

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