Abandonment Quotes

154 quotes by 144 authors

On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand we have the… — Rosa Luxemburg
Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious… — Tayari Jones
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes. — Douglas Coupland
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment. — Marco Arment
Betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation. — Bill Cosby
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit. — Edgar Allan Poe
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. — Mario Balotelli
An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment. — Michio Kushi
Prayer is continual abandonment to God. — Sadhu Sundar Singh
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely. — John Calvin
God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness,… — Francois Fenelon
Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness… — G. Campbell Morgan
God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and… — Henry Charles Carey
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards. — Johan Huizinga
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does. — Peter Drucker
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of eternal helps and… — Alexander MacLaren
To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet… — Hannah Whitall Smith

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