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.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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.
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
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.
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
Love can be put off, never abandoned.
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.
Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.
No matter what storm you face, you need to know God loves you. He has not abandoned you.
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.
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.
If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.
He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.
I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.
When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.
Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
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