Abandonment Quotes

• Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

  Orson Welles

  Hate, Race, Human Nature

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• Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Sad, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

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• I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

  Kenny Guinn

  Children, Believe, Abuse

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• Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.

  Tayari Jones

  Air, Skins, Body

  Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.53, Algonquin Books

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• No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

  Markus Zusak

  Unconditional Love, Matter, Recognition

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.28, Random House

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• Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in the chains of emotional dependence. Therefore, our two most difficult challenges are to truly believe it is okay for us to be ourselves and to learn to live with, move through, and heal our fears.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Selfish, Believe

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• Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

  Victor Hugo

  Struggle, Hero, Men

  Victor Hugo (1914). “The novels”

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• I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.

  Mickey Rourke

  Feelings, Way, Shame

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• The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

  Bertrand Russell

  Lying, Essence, May

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.400, Psychology Press

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• Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Self, Prudent

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• I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Abuse, Domestic Violence, Overcoming

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• I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Believe, Fate

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• I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

  Tilda Swinton

  Character, Thinking

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• Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Self, Soul, Return

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sex, Eye, Looks

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

  Johan Huizinga

  Mean, Ethical Standards, Understanding

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• If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

  R. D. Laing

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Anxiety

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• I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

  Susan Griffin

  Different, Earth, Splits

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• You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

  Carrie P. Meek

  Alienation

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

  David Jeremiah

  Inspirational, Death, Christian

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• The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small.

  Francis of Assisi

  Hands, Feelings, Grace

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• The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

  Arthur Miller

  Expression, Finals, Concentration

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.232, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

  Kenny Loggins

  Mother, Father, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.

  Henry Charles Carey

  Feelings, Slavery, States

  Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

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