Quotes about Abandonment
The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for pain that he sobbed ; it was because he was all alone, because he had been driven out, alone, into this skeleton world of rocks and moonlight.
— Aldous Huxley
Failure has no friends.
— John F. Kennedy
We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
— Alice Hoffman
Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
— Alice Hoffman
Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.
— Alice Hoffman
Here you are, Shelby tells Buddy. So now you know, she's not coming back. Not if you wait for a hundred years. She's left you and you're all alone, so get used to it.
— Alice Hoffman
Did people leave you, did their spirits simply take off, because you wouldn't read a book that turned them on? He now knew the answer was yes.
— Alice Walker
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!
— Anonymous
In that day a man shall cast his idols… to the moles and to the bats.
— Anonymous
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
— Anonymous
Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
— Anonymous
God does not abandon men, my son. Men abandon God.
— Francine Rivers