Abandonment Quotes - Page 4

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

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Cheating, Poor, Theft

  John Chrysostom (2010). “Discourses Against Judaizing Christians (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 68)”, p.25, CUA Press

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• [I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Son, Order

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

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Retirement, Loss, Solitude

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heartbreak, Children, Betrayal

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

  Yunus Emre

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Destiny

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• There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

  Orson Scott Card

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Men

  "Treason". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1988.

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• Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture.

  Ginette Paris

  Heartbreak, Heartbroken, Betrayal

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• The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Should Have, America

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• I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from and how they drive people and policies brought into public discourse.

  Susie Orbach

  Hurt, Disappointment, Emotional

  "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say" by Alain de Botton, AC Grayling, Susie Orbach, Paul Gilroy, Will Self, Mary Beard, Brian Cox, Lionel Shriver, James Lovelock and Lisa Jardine, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• Not to abide in Jesus’ love would mean that we stop believing that we are loved by Jesus. We look at our circumstances - perhaps persecution or disease or abandonment - and we conclude that we are not loved by Jesus anymore. That’s the opposite of abiding in the love of Jesus. So abiding in his love means continuing to believe, moment by moment, that we are loved.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

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• In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished - a word that for them has no sense - but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.

  Paul Valery

  Eye, Reflection, Irritation

  "Collected Works", vol. 1,("Recollection"), 1972.

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• 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.

  Anna Godbersen

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Broken

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• I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.

  Frantz Fanon

  Heart, Intelligent, Men

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.45, Pluto Press

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• Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.

  Theodor Adorno

  Self, Evil, Matter

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.238, Verso

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• If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.

  B. B. Warfield

  Inspiration, Discovery, Criticism

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• What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.

  John McCain

  Country, Party, People

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• Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Eye, Journey, Men

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• You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Mean, Simplicity

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Heart, Giving

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• God felt, God tasted and enjoyed is indeed God, but God with those gifts which flatter the soul, God in darkness, in privation, in forsakenness, in sensibility, is so much God, that he is so to speak God bare and alone. Shall we fear this death, which is to produce in us the true divine life of grace?

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Grace, Soul

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• Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Mean, Effort, Waiting

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

  Henry Suso

  Men, Highest

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• place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Self, Triumph

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.25, Harvard University Press

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

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Animal, Rejection

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