Top 226 Abandonment Quotes & Sayings

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

My dad's full of encouragement and support. It just feels like abandonment and neglect.

Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

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

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

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.

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.

There is an abandonment, an escape, that physical labor bestows.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

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 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.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.

Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.

Abandonment by a lover won't kill us. But it awakens the parts of us that remember when it could.

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

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that.

Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

Her mother died at the age of 29, essentially turning her face to the wall and deciding to die. And so we can only imagine the agony she felt. And Eleanor Roosevelt really wanted to make her mother happier, and - and to make her live, you know, make her want to live. And there's something about, you know, when your mother dies, this sense of abandonment. I think Eleanor Roosevelt had a lifelong fear of abandonment and sense of abandonment after her parents' death.

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

It is inner abandonment that leads men to the highest truth.

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

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

Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.

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

The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.

Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.

From the immediate abandonment of the promise of an extra £350m for the NHS, the history of Brexit is already littered with discarded and unfulfillable promises.

An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.

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

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.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

The appeal to force is the abandonment of reason.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

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.

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.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

No amount of money given in charity, nothing but the abandonment of this hateful trade, can atone for this great sin against God, Israel and Humanity.

My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we enjoyed reading it.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

I have always been scared of confrontation. My therapist says it stems from my fear of abandonment.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?

Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct something to take its place.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.

Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

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.