Best Abandoned Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky. This sense of being abandoned, which might in time have given characters a finer temper, began, however, by sapping them to the point of futility.”

Indifference Abandoned Content

Book:The Plague

Source: The Plague

“LOVE UNASHAMED I am all alone. Who will love me? Who will care? All my efforts have come to naught. Abandoned, forgotten, friendless. Yet, all along, my friend, he walks. He talks to me in tender ways. He tells me that I have missed the love that is especially mine. I did not see the little smiles. I did not hear the morning's call. I did not know life held me close. My mind was lost in sorry thoughts. In love’s kind way, we should not think of what we want to grab and guard. We share our light unashamed. We reach and kiss an aching world. I was mistaken to believe I was so godforsaken. How could I be when all the lovely things have made their home in me?”

Love Soul Spirit Jesus Friends Safe Abandoned Friendless Donna Goddard Unashamed

Book:Love's Longing

Source: Love's Longing

“I looked into your eyes and found nothing; you took everything, leaving no memories behind. I walked away and glanced back, hoping to see you waving goodbye, but all I saw was a dark, empty space where you once stood.”

Memories Sorrow Heartbreak Emptiness Goodbye Abandoned Lost Love Unfulfilled Expectations Dark Space Emotional Void

Author:Rolf van der Wind

“You slipped a grenade inside my mouth when you kissed me goodbye and walked away with the pin between your teeth. (There is nothing here to come back to.)”

Sad Heartbreak Alone Goodbye Abandoned Ruined Tortured

Author:Kristina Mahr

“Abandoned like an empty beer bottle, cigarette butt, worn-out shoe.”

Abandoned Simile

Book:Between the Shadow and the Soul

Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul

“I don’t know that our dreams died. Rather, I think that they were abandoned because that leaves us with the dream that maybe, in some nearly impossible way we can somehow still achieve the dream, for without a dream it us who dies.”

Death Dies Passion Hope Vision Dreams Abandoned Desires

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A Wish on the Sun" "I see the world beyond a tiny window that allows a glimpse of Heaven into my life. Those who dwell in that enviable light cannot hear me through the glass that muffles my cries. They do not appear to see my face pressed against this barrier. I watch them live, carefree and smiling. Even when our eyes lock—mine wide and weary—theirs squint beyond notice of me. They can't peer past the glass, the sunlight glaring off its surface. They don't see me. They won't see me. I make a wish on the sun, staring into its fiery brightness, imagining it blinding me to the beauty beyond my reach. Would my hell feel so awful then? The sun, this nearest star, absorbs my deepest wish for the thousandth time. 'Save me! Hold my hand! Pretend to care!' The light is blocked by a figure stepping past my window, and I feel the universe turn its cold shoulder on me. Despair smothers the hope that made my lips move in utterance of a desperate wish. It ebbs and weakens, but it does not die. The flicker of an ember remains, enough to ignite hope again—another time. All storms eventually cease, do they not? Once more, I press my face against the glass to view a glimpse of Heaven lived by the undeserving. I savor the sunlight, the only thing powerful enough to penetrate the window that bars me in hell. The warm rays touch me. I imagine God's fingers caressing my face—and the dying ember of hope suddenly inflames.”

Hope Despair Alone Richelle Goodrich Need Abandoned Richelle

Book:Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“When basic human needs are ignored, rejected, or invalidated by those in roles and positions to appropriately meet them; when the means by which these needs have been previously met are no longer available: and when prior abuse has already left one vulnerable for being exploited further, the stage is set for the possibility these needs will be prostituted. This situation places a survivor who has unmet needs in an incredible dilemma. She can either do without or seek the satisfaction of mobilized needs through some "illegitimate" source that leaves her increasingly divided from herself and ostracized from others. While meeting needs in this way resolves the immediate existential experience of deprivation and abandonment. it produces numerous other difﬁculties. These include experiencing oneself as “bad” or "weak" for having such strong needs; experiencing shame and guilt for relying on “illegitimate” sources of satisfaction: experiencing a loss of self-respect for indulging in activities contrary to personal moral standards of conduct; risking the displeasure and misunderstanding of others important to her; and opening oneself to the continued abuse and victimization of perpetrators who are all too willing to selﬁshly use others for their own pleasure and purposes under the guise of being 'helpful.”

“Who knew 'forever' could end in one moment? I didn't, till you left.”

Forever Sadness Alone Abandoned

Author:Aja Phoenix

“Why'd you go? I wanted you to stay. I was screaming yet you never heard me, and then, you left.”

Sadness Lonely Alone Abandoned

Author:Aja Phoenix

“The Abandoned Did you ever wonder Why abandoned houses looked so sad Much like the people Their exterior was only for the function We would not feel so sad If we recognized That the spirit of the house Had already moved on The dream remained”

Life Lessons House Dreams Sadness Sad Empty Abandoned Dreams Quotes

Book:The Dreaming Doors: Through the Soul Gateways

Source: The Dreaming Doors: Through the Soul Gateways

“I blinked. Because even though my dad never, ever complained about being a young dad, I always wondered about his regrets. How his need to keep abandoned, sad things might apply to me, too.”

Wonder Sadness Loneliness Parenting Abandoned Fatherhood The Way You Make Me Feel Clara Shin

Book:The Way You Make Me Feel

Source: The Way You Make Me Feel

“The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.”

“The metal door began to roll open as she held her breath. Its parts creaked like the bones of a giant roused from his slumber, like a Lazarus that had hidden his flaming heart within fireproof walls, patiently sleeping as the comatose do. The smell hit her first. Mold. Dampness. Cold lifeless things. Within, there was a darker sort of silence, as if the building had been holding its breath for so long it had forgotten how to breathe.”

Silence Building Abandoned Slumber Lazarus Giant Comatose Resurrected Abandoned Building

Book:The Wake Up

Source: The Wake Up

“You know how it goes: at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God. Then you abandoned life and lover and started celebrating your love for God.”

“Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real.”

World Needs Real God Reality Christian Jesus Christianity Jesus Christ Cruelty Abandoned Helpless Rejected Helplessness Needy Cruel Conclusions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Umasi kept walking, out of sight and into the glittering night. Meahwhile, Zen lay alone, defeated on the cold ground, knowing that he had truly been left behind. Then the memories returned, and for the first time in his life, he cried.”

Defeat Zen Abandoned Umasi

Book:Origins

Source: Origins

“Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear.”

Fear Powerful Power Defeat Surrender Abandon Abandoned Fearful Retreat Abandonment Surrendering Relinquish

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I looked out the window at midnight and watched the snow drop slowly to the ground. It was 2004 at last and new beginnings were about to be discovered. All I can wish is that they can be created on the spot, but it'll have to wait. I have some time to make my wishes come true.”

High School Longing Trauma Teenager Coming Of Age Abandoned New Year Wishing Hopeful And Encouraging

Book:A World So Bright and Dark: The Journal of Lizzie Colleen MacDougal

Source: A World So Bright and Dark: The Journal of Lizzie Colleen MacDougal

“No person, collection of people, institution, government or organization of any kind can in any way promise to meet all of my needs for no person, collection of people, institution, government or organization possesses the array of resources necessary to do that. And so, I am left with the reality that either there is a God who can meet all of my needs, or I’ve been stranded in an existence that created me with needs that the existence itself cannot meet.”

Needs God Reality Creation Evolution Empty Disappointment Rejection Hopeless Disappointed Abandoned Hopelessness Intelligent Design Stranded Unmet

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He wanted to be stopped, to be dragged back, to be sent back home... But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here...”

Inspirational Home Books Abandoned Hogwarts

Book:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next. After all, it is an unbelievably real world, with Darwin scribbling his thoughts into books and telling us what monkeys we are. Each of us explores possibility, hungry for sustaining adoration, yet we know enough to render ourselves helpless. We strive and strain, bellow and believe, we learn, and everything we learn tells us the same thing: life is one great meaningful experience in a meaningless world. Brilliance has many parts, yet each part is incomplete. We live, heal and attempt to piece together a picture worth the price of our very lives. The picture I saw presented demonic executioners, who crippled those daring to look and consumed souls without defense. They’re everywhere. Some are people we know. Others are the great fears and addictions of our lives.”

Truth Possibility Lies Addiction Abandon Abandoned Monkeys Abandonment Fears Darwin Addictions

Author:Christopher Hawke

“Hearts have quite abandoned it”

Heart Abandoned

Book:Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“I write because I have a small heart that is bruised and abandoned and I want ways to love it more and more.”

Love Heart Abandoned Bruised

Author:Nitya Prakash

“How apart she felt, how apart she had felt for years, and she wished it was a feeling she could get used to. But it wasn’t. One by one, everyone else her age had married and had children, yet for her, the years of her twenties had slipped away, waving at her like hands from a leaving train. As they all moved on, she was left standing on the platform, absolutely alone, surrounded only by the smoke that stung her eyes and throat. It was no different now.”

Waiting Marriage Loneliness Lonely Aging Motherhood Abandoned Left Behind Single Life Singleness

Book:The Ocean's Daughter :

Source: The Ocean's Daughter :

“People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.”

Poetry Time Waiting Family Relationship Empty Writer Abandoned Dictionary Father And Son Visit Lost Child Strangle Ink Blood

Book:Please Pass Me, the Blood & Butter

Source: Please Pass Me, the Blood & Butter

“There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced by everyone and can be understood by only a few. I compare the panic in this kind of loneliness to the dog we see running frantically down the road pursuing the family car. He is not really being left behind, for the family knows it is to return, but for that moment in his limited understanding, he is being left alone forever, and he has to run and run to survive. It is no wonder that we make terrible choices in our lives to avoid loneliness.”

Loneliness Solitude Lonely Alone Abandoned Dogs Abandonment Left Alone

Book:You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown!

Source: You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown!

“Making it ‘all about me’ is making it all about no one else. And if I stop long enough to look around, I suddenly realize that a lot of ‘me’ without a lot ‘no one else’ is not a lot of anything.”

Loneliness Ego Lonely Empty Selfish Abandoned Isolated Self Centered Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.”

“The hours tick by as I lie in bed. Memories keep surfacing, tormenting me into unbelievable sadness. I can't bring myself to move. I can't fight the memories that keep filling my thoughts. I stay curled in the fetal position as each memory plays out. I can't stop them from coming. I can't make them go away. Nothing can distract me. I can't block the memories, so they continue to come.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“She was an abandoned paradise. Wrecked and scary. The silence she held around her pierced even the darkest nights and the toughest hearts. But the moment you entered inside, she was utterly beautiful. She had the stars hanging from the roof with her dreams spilt all over the floor. The realms she ruled had no boundaries and walking through her was always bliss.”

Beautiful Night Stars Scary Boundaries Bliss Paradise Abandoned She Wrecked

Book:The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams

Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams

“The grounding principle of the Small Science was "like calls to like," but then it got complicated. Odinakovost was the "thisness" of a thing that made it the same as everything else. Etovost was the "thatness" of a thing that made it different from everything else. Odinakovost connected Grisha to the world, but it was etovost that gave them an affinity for something like air, or blood, or in my case, light. Around then, my head started swimming. One thing did stand out to me: the word the philosophers used to describe people born without Grisha gifts, otkazat'sya, "the abandoned." It was another word for orphan.”

Science Power Elements Words Gift Abandoned Orphans Grisha

Author:Bardugo Leigh

“And now what will I do with all this time that forms my life with all these people who care nothing for me now, that you've left all these nights why, for whom and this morning for nothing returning my heart banging for whom why banging gravely, gravely, and now how to face up to that nothingness my life slipping o friends be gentle you know well we have nothing to do with it And now what will I do now that you . . .”

Poetry Poem Alone Abandoned Nothingness Suicidal Alejandra Pizarnik The Galloping Hour

Book:The Galloping Hour: French Poems

Source: The Galloping Hour: French Poems

“Lonely. My heart grips as the word crosses my mind. So many different feelings come with the word, not just loneliness. The word went beyond its definition. Loneliness has a deeper meaning to those who truly know what it means to be alone.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“He stares at me—taking me in—with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“One of his hands move away from my face to flatten against my back, pulling me closer to him as he deepens the kiss. He parts my lips under his as my mind seems to sign quietly in content. I kiss him back as fiercely as he kisses me, unable to control the infatuation that rushes through me - feeling almost like fireworks. Not so careful anymore. Little shivers of urgency shoot through me. I push off the window, pressing closer to him. The rush of sensation that is coursing through me feels like I've drunk a gallon of coffee. It feels like an electric buzz is flooding between us.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“He drinks his coffee tentatively, glancing at me every few seconds, watching me. Every time he glances in my direction, I quickly turn away though he obviously knows I'm watching him. I know he's wondering why I'm staring at him, but he doesn't ask. I finally take a sip of coffee, set the mug back on the table, and voice what's on my mind, "I want to draw you.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“I'm being pulled under - father and farther from the surface. My lungs continue to scream for air. Panic is building inside me, threatening to combust. I can't break free. Help! I can't break free! I open my mouth to scream.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“Night has settled over Paris. The streets have cleared of the crowds, and the city has been lit up. I set my book down, deciding to go for a walk. The Eiffel Tower is only a few blocks away. Now that there aren't many people out, I can walk there without having to fight my way through mobs of gawking tourists.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.”

God Lonely Absence Trials Alone Isolation Abandoned Isolated Absent Abandonment Difficulties Fingerprints Footprints Banished Banish

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He smirks, shaking his head and letting his eyes wander. I watch him carefully, wondering what I can say to get him to leave. “I’m not leaving until you answer some questions. Plus, I’m holding your sketchbook hostage, so you might want to cooperate.” I raise an eyebrow at him. I guess there isn’t much I can say. “This isn’t a hostage negotiation.” He chuckles half-heartedly as his eyes take me in, almost sizing me up. “I guess I should introduce myself.” He holds a hand out for me to shake. “I’m Nathan.” I stare at his hand for a moment. “Taylor,” I reply, meeting his eyes again without taking his hand. He lets his hand fall back to his side. “At least I got you to say something non-hostile.” “I haven’t been hostile,” I object. His eyebrows shoot up. “Oh, haven’t you?” “Why don’t you leave me alone?” I snap. “Leave and don’t come back.” I move passed him, heading for my apartment. He can’t follow and annoy me if I lock the door. “Where are you going?” he demands. I look back over my shoulder and roll my eyes at him, indicating the answer should be obvious: anywhere he isn’t. Once inside, I slam the door behind me. “That was totally not hostile!” he calls after me, sarcastically. I quickly head for my bedroom door, slamming it, too.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“I grab the nearest lamppost when my knees threaten to give out, panting for breath as the words rip through me”

Source: Alone in Paris

“Every gesture and every look he gives me takes me by surprise and causes my heart to stutter.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“I head in the direction of the Eiffel Tower when I exit the alley, relieved to be out of the dark.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“I take in all the colorful locks that line the bridge. Each one told a story. Each lock represented a relationship that was once special, whether it ended or turned into true happiness. The locks represented a past, present, and a possible future.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“When we step onto the bridge, Nathan turns and spreads his arms out wide. ‘Welcome to Pont des Arts, a.k.a. The Lock Bridge.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“I freeze, my feet suddenly glued to the floor. It takes me a minute to gather the courage to turn around, but when I do, I immediately wish I hadn't. The boy is standing in the doorway at the end of the hall. Why is he here again? I barely allow myself time to ask the question before I move. Panicked, I turn and run back downstairs as fast as I can. "Hey! Wait!" he calls after me. I don't stop.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“The boy took my sketchbook.”

Source: Alone in Paris

“The life is cruel death to me without you.”

Love Life Death Loneliness Alone Abandoned Without You Without Love

Author:Veronica Franco

“I can't believe you called me," Anna said. "Nobody else from home has called me in forever. It's like they forgot about me. You think you're so close to people but when it comes down to it, they just forget.”

Relationships Sad Lonely Forgotten Abandoned Friendships Kristen Roupenian You Know You Want This

Book:You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

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