Abandoned Quotes

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Dignity was the first quality to be abandoned when the heart took over the running of human affairs.

Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.

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: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

Never think I have abandoned you. When the sun shines on you, it is my smile. When you hear the breeze stir through the apple blossoms, it is my whisper that I love you. My love is yours forever.

I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.

No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.

And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?

I started natural farming after the war with just one small plot, but gradually I acquired additional acreage by taking over surrounding pieces of abandoned land and caring for them by hand.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art) is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

For me, I never abandoned the truck. Even though I’ve opened other things, the truck is still the lifeblood of who I am. That’s because I enjoy it. I believe in it. It’s everything that I am.

I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs - especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I've dedicated my life to this.

Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

Its very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.

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.

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.