Abandoned Quote by Charlotte Bronte

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I…

— Anonymous

In going under the water I had been obliged to let go my hold upon the rope; and finding that I was completely beneath…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic…

— Tatsuhiko Takimoto

Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I…

— Nicole Krauss

And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole…

— William Wordsworth

Unwearied, and with springing steps elate, I had conveyed my wealth along the road. The empty sack proved now a heavier load: I was…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to…

— Haruki Murakami

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor,…

— Meghan O'Rourke

The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had…

— Maggie Stiefvater

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For…

— Anonymous

“[W]alking sometimes in a perfectly desolate plain where there have been no houses nor trees to guide me, I have been occasionally compelled to…

— Edwin Abbott Abbott

But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I…

— Bernadette Roberts