41 Quotes About Abandonment

Having to suffer through the feelings of being abandoned can leave emotional scars that last you a lifetime. These quotes about abandonment are perfect examples to the type of tragic effect this can have on someone.

“A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment.”

“A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.”

“Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.”

“Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.”

“From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.”

“I always think of the word ‘abandonment’ when I think of the character.”

“I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.”

“I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.”

“I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy.”

“I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.”

“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.”

“I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn’t even looked at before.”

“Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty?”

“It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.”

“I’ve overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.”

“Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.”

“Man’s greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes – obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.”

“No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.”

“Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.”

“Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.”

“Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.”

“So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.”

“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

“Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being’s eyes.”

“The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.”

“The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”

“The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful –because the reproached self isn’t abandoned; it remains intact.”

“The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.”

“The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children.”

“The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.”

“The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.”

“The spectacular sparkle of set-apart femininity is found through absolute abandonment to the Author of all true beauty.”

“The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.”

“There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty.”

“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion.”

“They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.”

“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.”

“To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.”

“We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and psychological crises common to the human experience.”

“You can’t put abandonment and alienation under arrest.”

“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself…the height of a man’s success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment.”

Ending a culture of abandonment will help to encourage the next generation to be more responsible.