182 Quotes About Abandonment

People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been.

And so he found himself always in search of the perfect love, always unable to find it or sustain it, and predisposed to reenact his mother's bewildering abandonment of him.

Sometimes you must embrace the feeling of being abandoned, until your deepest self warms to the thought of you being its closest companion.

Last night, I realized that it is possible for love to die in an instant. It felt sickening to lie with you in the same bed and have your arms wrapped tightly around me. It no longer felt right.

Maybe once you've been left by the most important person in your life, you can never be unleft again. Maybe you're destined to be abandoned even by your own guts, maybe your foot walks off with your thighbone, why not, stranger things have happened.

God Will Not Abandon You10) If you know the pain of being abandoned, it’s easy to believe that God may abandon you, too; He Won’t. It doesn’t matter how imperfect, sinful, obnoxious or undeserving you are, He will NOT leave you. Deuteronomy 31:8

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

How can one who has been abandoned—truly, no one left in sight—be less alone?

To come to the door and know that she would find no one: to see a house completely empty. It was like coming to her tomb while she was still alive.