Top 25 Abandonment Quotes of 32

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.

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.

Henry Charles Carey

Feelings, Slavery, Abandonment

Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

Christian, Prayer, Abandonment

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

Arthur Miller

Expression, Finals, Abandonment

Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.232, Bloomsbury Publishing

Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.

Candace Pert

Healing, Isolation, Abandonment

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

Henry Suso

Men, Abandonment, Highest

Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.

Tony Meloto

Poverty, Abandonment, Poor

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

Saint John Chrysostom

Cheating, Abandonment, Poor

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

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

Leslie Ludy

True Beauty, Sparkle, Abandonment

Leslie Ludy (2008). “Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman”, p.19, Harvest House Publishers

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oppression, Abandonment

Gabriel García Márquez's Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the role of a writer, www.farnamstreetblog.com. 1982.

Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy, Abandonment

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

Mason Cooley

Jealousy, Self, Abandonment

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

Carrie P. Meek

Abandonment, Alienation

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

Mario Balotelli

Children, Never Forget, Abandonment

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

Tilda Swinton

Character, Thinking, Abandonment

I was single for a really long time, then I realized I had abandonment issues. Then I found love online.

Patti Stanger

Issues, Long, Abandonment

"Patti Stanger, ‘Millionaire Matchmaker’ Star, Reveals Online Dating Pet Peeve" by Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2013.

Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

Dalai Lama

Laughing, Abandonment, Very Good

Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

Robert Genn

Teacher, Disappointment, Abandonment

I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.

Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

Madness, Abandonment, Impulse

The appeal to force is the abandonment of reason.

Irving Copi

Abandonment, Reason, Force

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

Steven Gould

Abandonment, Labor

Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.

Solomon Schechter

Abandonment, Torah, Judaism

Solomon Schechter (1908). “Inaugural Address of Solomon Schechter as President of the Faculty of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America: Delivered November 20, 1902”

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?

Randall Terry

Children, Long, Abandonment

Ford can't sell trucks currently, and GM is not selling as many cars as it would like to. That is a problem of product and pricing, not a systemic problem of abandonment by consumers.

Paul Taylor

Car, Problem, Abandonment