All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.
― Nathan Reese Maher
Certainly, the terror of a deserted house swells in geometrical rather than arithmetical progression as houses multiply to form a city of stark desolation. The sight of such endless avenues of fishy-eyed vacancy and death, and the thought of such linked infinities of black, brooding compartments given over to cob-webs and memories and the conqueror worm, start up vestigial fears and aversions that not even the stoutest philosophy can disperse.
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
― Emile Durkheim
The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.
― Derek Walcott
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
― Halle Berry
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
― Jamaica Kincaid
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our stars are not where we last admired them. Our homes crumble and we don't know which place to long for.
― Ann Druyan
The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.
― Brian A. McBride
Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded.
― Bryant McGill