Abandoned Quotes
532 Abandoned quotes by 450 unique authors
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You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself…
— Nora Roberts
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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they…
— Unknown Author
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Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The…
— Pablo Neruda
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I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood…
— Nicole Krauss
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I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse…
— Charles Dickens
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The Guardians wouldn't abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn't have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.
— Richelle Mead
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Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having…
— Fernando Pessoa
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With no chance to take off, I had to play my role, searching for the rendezvous spot, which gave me the excuse to look for…
— Kelley Armstrong
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I construct my memories with my present. I am lost, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
— Alice Hoffman
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No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and…
— Shirley Jackson
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It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite:…
— Ann Voskamp
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Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.
— William Boyd
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THE ABANDONED VALLEY Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into…
— Jack Gilbert
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There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned,…
— Ilona Andrews
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You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt…
— David Wong
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Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.
— John Grisham
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He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.
— Kelley Armstrong
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The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
— Don DeLillo
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Do what ya have to do to pay off yer debt with Heaven,’ he said, his concern for proper speech abandoned. ‘But ya do not…
— Jana Oliver
Who Wrote These Abandoned Quotes
450 authors contributed a total of 532 Abandoned Quotes, led by these top contributors: