Abandoned

Famous quotes containing the word abandoned:

“There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“In 1845 he built himself a small framed house on the shores of Walden Pond, and lived there two years alone, a life of labor and study. This action was quite native and fit for him. No one who knew him would tax him with affectation. He was more unlike his neighbors in his thought than in his action. As soon as he had exhausted himself that advantages of his solitude, he abandoned it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The Good and Great must ever shun
That reckless and abandoned one
Who stoops to perpetrate a pun.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)