It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk where book had been checked out in days when books were still being checked out. He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet's intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.

~ Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson Abandoned Apocalypse Books Dead Death Decay Empty Library Metaphor Zombies

You are not abandoned until you feel that you are! - On Being Abandoned.

~ Lamine Pearlheart

Lamine Pearlheart Abandoned Abandonment Abandonment Issues Feeling

Nobody would have anything to do with him. He began to drop things and to trip. He had a shy and hopeful manner in each new contact, and he was always disappointed. Because he NEEDED a friend so desperately, he never found one.

~ Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller Abandoned Aloneness Catch 22 Forgotten Lonely No Friends Personal Self Consciousness

She doesnt want your dark embrace. She'll let you hold her for a short time but she won’t submit to that kind of weakness and she'll only let you get so close. In the past it was easier pushing you into the arms of another rather than face what was or what could be. She doesn't want to love; not now, so she'll close the door and toss the key.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Donna Lynn Hope Abandoned Closeness Hard To Get Intimacy Intimate

Since I spent much of my childhood being left behind and ignored, one might think that, as an adult, moments of perceived abandonment would feel old hat. The truth is, as an adult, I am always waiting to be left behind. I’m always ready to be discarded and, therefore, I spend a significant amount of time preparing for this eventuality.I lower my expectations, I don’t seek out meaningful relationships, and I don’t engage in any sort of real intimacy, physical or otherwise.Engage is the key word here. Except, when I engage, when it happens, when I’m left behind it doesn’t feel old hat. It feels like it did the first time and it takes me by surprise. So, I don’t let it happen.

~ Penny Reid

Penny Reid Abandoned Intimacy

He stares at me—taking me in—with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me in place.

~ Ashley Earley

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At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

~ Georges Jacques Danton

Georges Jacques Danton Last Supreme Abandoned

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

~ Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson Rage Cry Abandoned

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci Never Abandoned Finished

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

~ Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry Never Abandoned Finished