182 Quotes About Abandonment

When Jeff Greene was in second grade, seven and a half years old, he got home from school one Tuesday afternoon in early March, and found a note from his mother, saying that she had gone away and would not be coming back.

Then from our cross to his cross rises one and the same clamor, "Eli! Eli! Lema Sabachthani?" (My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?)

Being abandoned is awful but saying 'don't leave me' is even worse.

Once you've done it with him, he won't abandon you. If he really loves you, if he's a man with a heart, he'll follow you wherever you go. If he doesn't, he isn't the man you want, is he?

how stupid to abandon something I loved because someone I loved abandoned me.

You'll abandon me?Who willthen seethe attire of my nakednessin which I appeartrulybeautiful?

A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned.

The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor.

Now, I've made mistakes. I've lost people. But you've thrown them away. There is an important difference.