Abandonment Quotes

• I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Woman
  • Hurt
  • Animal

• Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • God
  • Christian
  • Prayer

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

  

  Carrie P. Meek
  • Alienation
  • Arrest
  • Abandonment

• I am afraid of abandonment, and, if you will, in a really existential way, being exposed as a fraud. Everyone's afraid of it, and I definitely am. This is a fear that motivates. Oh, and heights. And getting stabbed.

  

  Baron Vaughn
  • Fraud
  • Height
  • Exposed

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

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Abandonment

• People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be.

  

  Delphine de Vigan
  • World
  • History
  • Wonderful

• Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

  

  George Sarton
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Mistake

• 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 Black Flag
  • Believe
  • Destiny
  • Fate

• He sat for a long time and thought to himself that he wished he knew how to pray, yet he knew, untaught, how by abandonment of himself to let the quietness take hold of him.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Hold
  • Wished
  • Abandonment

• In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Conceit
  • Abandonment
  • Marginalia

• Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.

  

  Michael Robotham
  • Tragedy
  • Loneliness
  • Destructive

• This is particularly true of those who "love too much" and those who tend to lose themselves in their relationships. Sometimes our love becomes distorted by our feelings of insecurity and our fear of abandonment. This is the often the case with those who become overly controlling and overly smothering of their partner. Others become emotionally abusive because of their fear of intimacy.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Relationships

• To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition of science. Once a field has made the transition, critical discourse recurs only at moments of crisis when the bases of the field are again in jeopardy. Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Science
  • Moments
  • Crisis

• There are great virtues in a conservative attitude towards structural features of government. The sudden abandonment of institutions is an act that reverberates in ways no one can predict and many come to regret.

  

  Alexander Bickel
  • Government
  • Institutions
  • Abandonment

• When I opened my eyes again, five hours later, at seven o'clock on Saturday August 4th, I had trouble getting my bearings. The hardest day of the ordeal of my abandonment was about to begin, but I didn't know it yet.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Abandonment
  • Bearings

• Maybe, I thought, I’ve given too much weight to the cultivated use of reason, to good reading, to well controlled language, to political affiliation; maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Reason
  • Language
  • Discovery

• How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.

  

  Walter Inglis Anderson
  • Relationship
  • Humans
  • Fulfilled

• Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleasure and enjoyment to ourselves, and do no harm to others, we are perfectly free to use.

  

  Washington Gladden
  • Christian
  • Pleasure
  • Innocent

• When I returned home that night with the children, I felt the close, comfortable warmth of the apartment for the first time since the abandonment.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Children
  • Home
  • Abandonment

• While Otto ran here and there, carefully choosing places to urinate, I felt over every inch of my body the scratches of sexual abandonment, the danger of drowning in scorn for myself and nostalgia for him. I got up and went back along the path; I whistled again, and waited for Otto to return.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Nostalgia
  • Choosing
  • Scorn