Abandoned Quotes

532 Abandoned quotes by 450 unique authors

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a… — Lisa Genova
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned. — E. M. Forster
Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up… — Kristin Cashore
I held out a lead figurine of Hadesâ€”the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. Nico hesitated. "I donâ€™t play… — Rick Riordan
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune:… — Marcus Aurelius
I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This… — Pat Conroy
I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadnâ€™t taken… — Patricia Briggs
Have you ever happened, reader, to feel that subtle sorrow of parting with an unloved abode? The heart does not break, as it does in… — Vladimir Nabokov
Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a… — Diana Gabaldon
Your father abandoned us. (Zephyra) I know. Youâ€™ve told me that enough that itâ€™s permanently seared into my brain. Still, heâ€™s a part of me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Then he will be called Acheron for the River of Woe. Like the river of the Underworld, his journey shall be dark, long and enduring.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Heâ€™d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue… — Margaret Atwood
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war. That… — Bob Marley
It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like… — Isabel Allende
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially… — Marcel Proust
Lavina led me to an abandoned warehouse. I think that at some point someone decreed that all clandestine meetings must be held in one. Woe… — Kelley Armstrong
â€¦God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to… — Rohinton Mistry
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... — Margaret Drabble

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