295 Quotes About Abandoned


  • Author H.P. Lovecraft
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    Certainly, the terror of a deserted house swells in geometrical rather than arithmetical progression as houses multiply to form a city of stark desolation. The sight of such endless avenues of fishy-eyed vacancy and death, and the thought of such linked infinities of black, brooding compartments given over to cob-webs and memories and the conqueror worm, start up vestigial fears and aversions that not even the stoutest philosophy can disperse.

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  • Author Alice Notley
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    It’s all like me; and any song for this would just be bullshit. This is a thing, where they stopped trying, they deserted it, and desertion itself is the only possible song.

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  • Author Chinua Achebe
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    What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time.

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  • Author Jim Armstrong
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    I see where Bill Belichick wore a navy blue shirt during (last week's) opener. What, he has abandoned that gray sweatshirt he borrowed from the Unabomber?

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  • Author John James Audubon
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    Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.

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