Abandon Quotes:

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.

- Alexander McCall Smith

topic: People, Important, Abandon, Formality

Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.

- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

topic: Abandon

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

- Amy Lee

topic: Self, Abandon, Imaginary

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

- Bede Griffiths

topic: Self, Abandon

Kenny Shanker burns with boppish abandon.

- Bill Milkowski

topic: Abandon, Kenny

It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw.

- Bono

topic: Impossible, Exposing Yourself, Abandon

If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals.

- Carl Whitaker

topic: Missionary, Chance, Abandon, Missionary Zeal

It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

- Claude Debussy

source: "The Cambridge Companion to Debussy". Book by Simon Trezise, 2003.

topic: People, Oblivion, Abandon

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

topic: Abandon

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

- David Dreman

topic: Ships, Strategy, Abandon

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

- David Eagleman

topic: God Life, Abandon

Don't abandon what makes you who you are. Don't give up hope.

- DeVon Franklin

source: DeVon Franklin (2011). “Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

topic: Giving Up, Abandon, Devon, Don't Give Up Hope

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

topic: Age, Chance, Abandon

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

- E. Stanley Jones

topic: Prayer, Abandon, Sooner Or Later

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Power, Corruption, Abandon, Intoxicated

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

- Ernest Gellner

source: Ernest Gellner (1959). “Words and Things: A Critical Account of Linguistic Philosophy and a Study in Ideology”

topic: Calling, Philosopher, Abandon

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

- Ernst Mach

topic: Tasks, Purpose, Abandon, Standpoint

Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

- Grant Morrison

topic: Lying, Abandon

I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.

- Gustav Mahler

topic: Ideas, Abandon, Carried Away

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

- Hans Kung

source: Die Kirche (translated by Ray and Rosalee Ockenden as The Church, 1967).

topic: Church, Abandon

Lost are only those who abandon themselves.

- Hans-Ulrich Rudel

topic: Lost, Abandon

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

- Irving Stone

source: Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

topic: Hours, Darkest Hour, Abandon

God did not create us to abandon us.

- Irving Stone

topic: Abandon

You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Hurt, Scary, Abandon

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

- Joan D. Vinge

topic: Forever, Path, Abandon

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

- Jock Sturges

topic: Want, Guilty, Abandon, Naivete

Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would; every inebriate would if he could.

- John Bartholomew Gough

topic: Cups, Temperance, Abandon

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Writing, Ideas, Abandon, Writing Advice

Everything I do, I do with reckless abandon.

- Jolene Blalock

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Reckless, Reckless Abandon, Abandon

If you continue to dream, if you never abandon your dream, it will come true in the end.

- Junsu

topic: Dream, Ends, Abandon, Tvxq

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Facts, Authority, Abandon

They actually think I would abandon the Commander. they have no concept of loyalty.

- Maria V. Snyder

topic: Loyalty, Thinking, Abandon

You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.

- Meg Cabot

topic: Shadow, Said, Abandon

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

- Michael Enzi

topic: Family, Abandon

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Views, Needs, Abandon, Peace Is Every Step

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Daily Life, Moments, Abandon

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

- Nicolae Ceausescu

topic: Children, Law, Abandon

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Tired, Bored, Abandon, Tired And Bored

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Tasks, Surprise, Abandon

The greatest word of Jesus to His disciples is abandon

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Jesus, Abandon, Disciple

It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from nothing. That allows you to innovate. That allows you to take things to the extreme.

- Paul Heyman

source: Twitter post from

topic: Passion, Reckless, Abandon, Reckless Abandon, Unbridled Passion

Who will adhere to him that abandons himself?

- Philip Sidney

topic: Self, Abandon

It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

- Phillip Mann

topic: Struggle, Abandon

You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.

- R. T. Kendall

source: R. T. Kendall (2008). “The Parables of Jesus: A Guide to Understanding and Applying the Stories Jesus Told”, p.53, Baker Books

topic: Desire, Abandon, Desire For God

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

- Ralph Marston

topic: Goal, Reason, Abandon

We are only alone when we abandon ourselves.

- Ralph Smart

topic: Motivational, Abandon

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

- Robert E. Lee

topic: 4th Of July, Son, Abandon

There's an old saying that you don't ever finish a movie, you abandon it, and I really believe that. I never walk away from a take and pat myself on the back.

- Ryan Reynolds

topic: Believe, Abandon, Walks

I will never abandon you. I love you too much.

- S.J. Watson

topic: Love You, Too Much, Abandon, I Love You Too, I Love You Too Much

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

- Samael Aun Weor

topic: Hours, Theory, Abandon

As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves.

- Sherry Turkle

topic: May, Abandon

Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back

- Sophia Amoruso

topic: Habit, Abandon, Sophia, Finish Line, Extraordinary Life

Abandon money for authenticity.

- Spencer Antle

topic: Authenticity, Abandon

Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

topic: Limits, Silent, Abandon

To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn't deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.

- Steve Pavlina

topic: Lifestyle, Abandon, Fulfilling

One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

- Theodore Millon

source: Theodore Millon, Carrie M. Millon, Sarah E. Meagher, Seth D. Grossman, Rowena Ramnath (2012). “Personality Disorders in Modern Life”, p.481, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Feelings, Abandoned, Abandon

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. X (in 12 Volumes): Correspondence and Papers 1803-1807”, p.368, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Civil Rights, Abandon, Falsehood

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

- Thomas Keneally

topic: Art, Ambition, Abandon

Never abandon imagination

- Tony DiTerlizzi

source: Tony DiTerlizzi (2012). “The Search for WondLa”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

topic: Imagination, Abandon

I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon.

- Victoria Scott

source: Victoria Scott (2013). “The Collector”, p.22, Macmillan

topic: Laughing, Wonder, Abandon

No, I won't abandon hate. If I did, then nothing would be left of me.

- Yana Toboso

topic: Hate, Would Be, Abandon

To the extent America abandons Israel, it abandons itself.

- Yaron Brook

topic: America, Israel, Abandon

Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved.

- Clayton Cramer

topic: People, Utopia, Abandon

There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.

- Stephen Frears

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Voice, Spirit, Abandon

O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

- Leonardo da Vinci

source: Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

topic: Law, Instruments, Abandon

Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

topic: Ideas, Needs, Abandon

Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

- Patti Smith

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Children, Sometimes, Abandon

The only way we're gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.

- Charles Schumer

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Moving, Republican, Abandon

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

- Francois Fenelon

topic: Abandoned, Abandon

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 10, 2014

topic: Risk, Path, Abandon

Discriminate between the transient and the eternal. Learn to move from complete control to complete abandon.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Moving, Buddhism, Abandon, Transient

Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

- Friedrich Schiller

source: Friedrich Schiller (2013). “On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”, p.52, Lulu.com

topic: Abandon, Satisfied, Guardianship

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

- Joan D. Chittister

topic: Spiritual, Blame, Abandon

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Achieve, Abandon, Security

Abandon every hope, you who enter.

- Dante Alighieri

source: Dante Alighieri, Charles Southward Singleton (1989). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno (2 v.)”, p.25, Princeton University Press

topic: Abandon

Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

- Dante Alighieri

source: Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (2010). “The Divine Comedy”, p.210, Bibliolis Books

topic: Endure, Abandon, Eternal

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Motto, Abandon

Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.

- Timothy Leary

source: Timothy Leary (1990). “Flashbacks: A Personal and Cultural History of an Era : an Autobiography”, Tarcher

topic: Dropping Out, Lsd, Abandon

You are sad because they abandon you and you have not fallen.

- Antonio Porchia

source: "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

topic: Fallen, Abandon

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?

- Tom Petty

topic: Inspirational, Want, Abandon

Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.

- Richard Flanagan

topic: Love Is, Glimpse, Abandon

It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.

- Richard Ford

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Tolerance, Solitude, Abandon

By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Accepting, Abandon, Improving

We?" I asked. Of course. I'm not leaving you alone on this, no matter what. You know I'd never abandon you.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.488, Penguin

topic: Leaving, Matter, Abandon

He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.

- Meg Cabot

source: Meg Cabot (2013). “The Abandon Trilogy: Abandon, Underworld and Awaken”, p.161, Pan Macmillan

topic: Mouths, Abandon, Mines

The Government will not abandon the free conversion of the rouble

- Dmitry Medvedev

topic: Government, Abandon, Conversion

Abandon everything you have outgrown.

- Wallace D. Wattles

source: Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ”, p.27, e-artnow

topic: Abandon

I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that doesn't feel like it will turn into a keeper.

- Robin Pecknold

topic: Writing, Thinking, Abandon

Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.

- Douglas Coupland

source: Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.228, Hachette UK

topic: Party, Abandon, Disenfranchised

Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

- Michelangelo

topic: Christianity, Abandon

If V’lane were a signpost, it would read Abandon All Personal Will, Ye Who Tread Here.

- Karen Marie Moning

source: Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.64, Delacorte Press

topic: Lanes, Abandon, Signposts

May God never abandon me.

- Blaise Pascal

source: Blaise Pascal (1962). “Pensées”

topic: May, Last Words, Abandon

Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it.

- Bob Dylan

source: Song: Abandoned Love, Album: Biograph

topic: Time, Let Me, Abandon

There are people who think that Trump's base was created by Steve Bannon - they are Alt-Right white nationalists and so forth - and that if Bannon ever turned on Trump, that everybody that voted for Trump would abandon Trump if Bannon leaves. I think that's just so much BS, I can't tell you, and so does people who voted for Trump.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Thinking, People, Abandon

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

- Ruth Ozeki

source: Ruth Ozeki (2013). “All Over Creation”, p.229, Canongate Books

topic: Generosity, Infinite, Abandon, Wanton, Wondrous

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Appendixes”, p.449

topic: Horror, Abandon, Remorse

Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Way, Abandon

Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

- Nhat Hanh

source: Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.98, Beacon Press

topic: People, Abandon, Contemplating

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

- Laozi

topic: Learning, Sorrow, Abandon

I would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

topic: Land, Would Be, Abandon, Ragnor Fell

Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Motivation, Giving, Abandon

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

- Orson Welles

topic: Hobbies, Making Money, Abandon, Hacks

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

- Stephane Mallarme

topic: Poet, Abandon