Abandonment Quotes
154 quotes by 144 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.
— Marco Arment
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Betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation.
— Bill Cosby
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In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.
— Mario Balotelli
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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
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Prayer is continual abandonment to God.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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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
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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
— John Calvin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.
— Peter Drucker
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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
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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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