Matthew Quick Quotes

Even close people left me - I was hurt by them and felt there was nobody who understands me, which made me fall apart.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

The thing about Lucifer is that by the end of the first season, his world is falling apart a bit. Anyone that he could call an ally or trust, he now can't, and that leaves him in a place that he's never been before.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain

Ain't nobody gonna care enough to catch you fall.

I broke down. I hid under the bed because I was afraid that somebody was going to come for me. I don’t know who that someone was but I was just so scared. Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted.

I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

There's a lot of days where you feel forgotten.

I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine.

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 hated my whole childhood, hated it, hated it, hated it. There was no place for me.

Neither God nor the Devil would take me in, so here I am.

A lot of friends have given up on me.

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

On my travels I, at least, did not see Serbia as a land of paranoiacs - much more as the huge room of an orphaned, yes, an orphaned, abandoned child.

Why should i care? Cause you werent there when i was scared. I was so alone.

At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

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