182 Quotes About Abandonment

I was alone. I had no one. No mother, no father, no brothers, no sisters, no grandmas, no grandpas, no uncles, no aunties, no cousins, and no tribe. I’d seen the children at the orphanage laugh or cry when they received news about a family member. I would never receive such news and no family would laugh or cry for me. That day I understood with sharp clarity that I didn’t have a mother who wanted me.

And what if---what are you if the people who are supposed to love you can leave you like you're nothing?

In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.

Perhaps family itself, like beauty, is temporary, and no discredit need attach to impermanence.

You should bring your wife here, she said. There are a lot of guys around. Somebody would take her away from you and when you got over it you'd be a lot happier.

...in addition to feeling sick and tired and feverish and nauseated, I also felt forgotten. And there was no easy cure for that.

Do not conform to seek the seekers, but leave the leavers. Wisdom comes from facing what you do not yet understand.

When he left us, he stole all the words.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.