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Abandonment Quotes

Honest lines on being left behind and finding footing again.

These quotes trace abandonment from personal wounds — unresolved issues with a parent — to the wider failures of a system meant to protect children from neglect and abuse. It connects naturally to the Alienation quotes collection.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

Quotes by Susan Griffin

I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower...

Quotes by Steven Curtis Chapman

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

Quotes by Patti Stanger

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Quotes by Orson Welles

Alienation Quotes

Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.

Quotes by Michael Gove

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

In my view, Reform and Opening Up began with the abandonment of the 'using class struggle as guiding principle' government policy of the Mao era and, in its place, a commitment to economic development and social harmony.

Quotes by Liu Xiaobo

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided...

Quotes by Kenny Guinn

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

Quotes by Kenny Loggins

Arrest Quotes

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

Quotes by Jonathan Sacks

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

Quotes by John Desmond Bernal

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Quotes by Johan Huizinga

I used to think anyone with abandonment issues was a waste of space. But you do need to get help. Blokes don't talk about those things. It's a taboo in the bloke world.

Quotes by Jimmy Barnes

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.

Quotes by Henry Charles Carey

Art Quotes

From the immediate abandonment of the promise of an extra £350m for the NHS, the history of Brexit is already littered with discarded and unfulfillable promises.

Quotes by Dominic Grieve

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the...

Quotes by David Limbaugh

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

Quotes by Carrie P. Meek

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Abandonment quotes page explore?
It moves between deeply personal wounds, like unresolved issues with a parent, and systemic failures, like children who are victims of neglect being further failed by bureaucracy.
Why do people search for quotes about abandonment?
Many are processing personal loss or estrangement and want language that names the feeling honestly, which these quotes do without softening it.
Is there a broader, more philosophical take on abandonment here?
Yes — one quote reframes abandonment as something universal, describing everyone as having been split away from the earth, from each other, and from themselves at some point.
Does the page touch on social change and abandoned traditions?
One entry describes a 1960s moral revolution across Western society as an abandonment of a traditional ethic of self-restraint, applying the word on a cultural scale.
What related topic pairs well with this page?
For more on isolation and disconnection, try Alienation quotes.

One voice reflects that being split away from the earth and each other is a shared human history, not an isolated one. See also Art or Back quotes.