Abandon quotes
100 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings."
"Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us."
"The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."
"When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither."
"For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them."
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"Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death."
"If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply."
"There's an old saying that you don't ever finish a movie, you abandon it, and I really believe that. I never walk away from a take and pat myself on the back."
"It is impossible to meet God without abandon, without exposing yourself, being raw."
"Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish."
"I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her."
"He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us."
"You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others."
"It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear."
"Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here."
"May God never abandon me."
"Let me feel your love one more time before I abandon it."
"Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate."
"Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow."
"I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it."
"Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie."
"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]"
"It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others."
"God did not create us to abandon us."
"Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children."
