Michael Reagan Quotes

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.

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.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

I cry a lot because I miss people.

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.

My wife gone, my mum gone, ostracised by my village. I was left all alone in life.

They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.

Here, far from our homes, we will be forgotten by our gods.

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.

The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell will decay to mold Don't know why I bother calling, ain't nobody answering Don't know why I bother singing, ain't nobody listening "Disconnect" Collateral Damage, Track 10

To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.