Quotes about Abandonment

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.

Here you are, Shelby tells Buddy. So now you know, she's not coming back. Not if you wait for a hundred years. She's left you and you're all alone, so get used to it.

Did people leave you, did their spirits simply take off, because you wouldn't read a book that turned them on? He now knew the answer was yes.

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!

In that day a man shall cast his idols… to the moles and to the bats.

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

God does not abandon men, my son. Men abandon God.

Everyone to whom she drew close left her. Sooner or later they walked away.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'...I am grateful that Jesus cried out those words, because it means that I need never fear to cry them out myself. I need never fear, nor feel any sense of guilt, during the inevitable moments of forsakenness. They come to us all. They are part of the soul's growth.