quotes about Abandoned
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I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.
-- Ben NicholsonSource : Peter Khoroche, Ben Nicholson (2002). “Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs”, Lund Humphries Publishers
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To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.
-- Dalai Lama -
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Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.
-- David Fincher -
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
-- David Whyte -
The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.
-- Dick Armey -
Recently abandoned women can be complicated.
-- Elizabeth Kostova -
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There are those who collect the refuse of the public streets, but in order to be received into the band it is necessary to have been born one of the Hereditary Confederacy of Superfluity Removers and Abandoned Oddment Gatherers.
-- Ernest BramahSource : Ernest Bramah (2016). “The Complete Works of Ernest Bramah (Including Max Carrados Mysteries & Kai Lung Fantasy Series): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Bravo of London, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, The Secret of Dunstan's Tower, The Missing Witness Sensationäó_”, p.1171, e-artnow
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It’s hard to feel attracted to someone who has abandoned her sense of autonomy.
-- Esther Perel -
Many of us prefer to live in places abandoned by humans. Less work for us. Detroit is very popular.
-- G. Willow WilsonSource : G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd
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A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
-- Gene FowlerSource : "The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler". Book by H. Allen Smith, 1977.
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If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?
-- George R. R. Martin -
[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.
-- Georges Bataille -
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
-- Georges Danton -
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
-- Halle Berry -
Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.
-- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -
No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.
-- Hillary Clinton -
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
-- Howard Gardner -
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
-- Ida Tarbell -
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
-- Jamaica Kincaid -
A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.
-- James Bryant Conant -
We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, and we knew that her sisters, once abandoned, felt her calling from that place, too.
-- Jeffrey Eugenides -
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I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.
-- Joan Didion -
Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God
-- John Eldredge -
He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.
-- Kelley Armstrong -
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The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.
-- Lewis Carroll -
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.
-- Livy -
I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.
-- Louise BourgeoisSource : Louise Bourgeois, Gerald Matt, Peter Weiermair (2005). “Louise Bourgeois: Aller-Retour : Zeichnungen und Skulpturen”, Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst
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Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die...
-- Margaret Drabble -
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When she needed help most, she was abandoned.
-- Matthew QuickSource : Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan
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When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.
-- Matthew Quick -
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
-- Oscar Wilde -
If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
-- Oswald Chambers -
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When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.
-- Oswald Chambers -
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.
-- Pasquier Quesnel -
It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.
-- Paul NurseSource : "Sir Paul Nurse - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 2008.
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I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
-- Peter DinklageSource : Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. October 23, 2007.
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The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
-- Peter McWilliams -
Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.
-- R. Lee Ermey -
I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.
-- S.J. Watson -
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We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection
-- Samuel Adams -
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.
-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon -
I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
-- Tablo -
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WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.
-- Tama J. KievesSource : Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher
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Before you came into my life, I believed that God had abandoned me. Now I know that He has blessed me beyond measure. -sir Bannor-
-- Teresa Medeiros -
One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.
-- Theodore MillonSource : Theodore Millon, Carrie M. Millon, Sarah E. Meagher, Seth D. Grossman, Rowena Ramnath (2012). “Personality Disorders in Modern Life”, p.481, John Wiley & Sons
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Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.
-- Tim Robbins -
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The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
-- Uta HagenSource : Uta Hagen (1991). “Challenge For The Actor”, p.65, Simon and Schuster
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And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate...
-- Washington Irving -
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
-- William BartramSource : William Bartram (1793). “Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, etc. [With plates and a map.]”, p.23
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Albert Camus was never abandoned by his readers. Camus is enormously read. He's the highest selling author in the entire Gallimard collection, and has been for some years now. Sales haven't ever stopped, so to talk about rediscovering him would suggest that he isn't read anymore and that's not true.
-- Catherine Camus -
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I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.
-- Stephanie Miller -
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
-- Thomas B. Griffith -
A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.
-- William P. Perry -
In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.
-- Matthea HarveySource : Source: www.raintaxi.com
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I had abandoned my plans for priesthood and replaced them with dreams of being a musician.
-- Jonathan CainSource : Source: www.christianpost.com