One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself. ~Theodore Millon
Our stars are not where we last admired them. Our homes crumble and we don't know which place to long for. ~Ann Druyan
When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life. ~Alexandra Katehakis
A humankind abandoned in its earlier formative stage becomes its own greatest threat to survival. ~Maria Montessori
You have not been abandoned. You are never alone, except by your own choice. ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one’s self. ~Pasquier Quesnel
Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship. ~Megan Marie
Being abandoned or given up is the most devastating emotion we can cause in another human being. ~Gary Daivd Currie
Many times, though, when people feel as if The Uni-verse has abandoned them, the truth is that they have abandoned their dreams, and as a result they have abandoned The Uni-verse. What we think is being done TO US, we are actually doing TO ourselves. It's a totally crazy reversal that is true most of the time. ~Mastin Kipp
It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. ~Cormac Mccarthy
There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road. ~Kathi Appelt
Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else’s shoes. ~Phoebe Stone
If love is universal, no one can be left out. ~Deepak Chopra
The feeling of abandonment overwhelmed me as I realised that no one had waited, or cared where I was. ~Emily Williams
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. ~Mario Balotelli
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. ~Rebecca West
Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. ~Pablo Neruda
The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable. ~Joseph Roux
Being abandoned doesn’t make for little angels. ~Margaret Way
The only thing worse than being abandoned is knowing that you're not even worth an explanation. ~unknown
Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both. ~Craig D. Lounsbrough
To die is as if one’s eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. ~Edvard Munch
We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection. ~Samuel Adams
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. ~David Whyte
Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body. ~Tayari Jones
Abandoning civil society will leave the enemy in control, not by victory but by default. ~Mike Klepper
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. ~Emile Durkheim
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters. ~Francisco Goya
The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found. ~Craig D. Lounsbrough
If we abandon the marriage, we abandon the family. ~Michael Enzi
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
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. ~Orson Welles
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. ~Pope John Paul II
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. ~Don DeLillo
A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew. ~Wes Fesler
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ~Mother Teresa
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her. ~Honore de Balzac
The worst feeling is not being alone, it's being forgotten by someone you could not forget. ~Nishan Panwar
No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so. ~Hillary Clinton
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. ~George Weinberg
When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses. ~Wayne W. Dyer
The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness. ~Brian A. McBride
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. ~Aldous Huxley
It sucks when you're being ignored by the only person you want attention from. It hurts getting absolutely no love from the only person you're in love with. It's sad when you get no conversation from the only one you want to talk to. ~Francine Chiar
He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his inner self: if he no longer values himself, how can he value others? If he no longer values others, he is abandoned. He has nothing left! ~Thomas Merton
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. ~Albert Camus
