Abandoned Quotes

• Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

  Martha Beck

  Eye, Oxygen, Feelings

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

  Paul Valery

  Inspirational, Life, Witty

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• The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.

  Peter McWilliams

  Positive Thinking, Positivity, Vehicle

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• When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mean, Practice, Two

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• There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

  Pasquier Quesnel

  Self, Punishment, Prison

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• To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

  John Green

  Needs

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.106, A&C Black

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• Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

  Emile Durkheim

  Dream, Reality, Imagination

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.216, Routledge

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• It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Betrayal, Coward, Firsts

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.224, Pan Macmillan

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• A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

  Xunzi

  Faith, Loyalty, Hate

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• Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

  Francisco Goya

  Monsters, Criminal Mind, Abandoned Buildings

  Lucia P. Iannone, Francisco Goya (1981). “Goya: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. Arthur Ross, Yale University Art Gallery, September 16-November 15, 1981”

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• A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew.

  Wes Fesler

  Commitment, Ships, Crew

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• A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, Science, Finished

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• The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Cry, Rage, Infant

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• If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.

  Krystal

  Hurt, Character, Betrayed

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• Love can be put off, never abandoned.

  Propertius

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• As belief shrinks from the world, it is more necessary than ever that someone believe. Wild-eyed men in caves. Nuns in black. Monks who do not speak. We are left to believe. Fools, children. Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure they are right not to believe but they know belief must not fade completely. Hell is when no one believes.

  Don DeLillo

  Children, Believe, Men

  Don DeLillo (1985). “White noise”, Viking Pr

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• Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Logic, Should

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.292, Penguin Books India

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• No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lgbt, Belief

  International Human Rights Day Address at Palais des Nations, delivered 6 December 2011, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Complicated

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• Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Hard

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

  Omar Bongo

  Giving, Political, Wish

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• WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Relief, Favors, Pragmatism

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

  Derek Walcott

  Landscape, Sugar, Ruins

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan

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• The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

  Dick Armey

  Party, Cherish, Democratic

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