Abandonment quotes

“- Aladar: They'll never make it!
- Kron: They can slow down the predators!
- Aladar: You can't sacrifice them like this!”

D.B. Sweeney - Aladar
Samuel E. Wright - Kron

“- Ethne Eustace: What is it, Harry?
- Harry Feversham: Feathers of cowardice. Yesterday we were informed that our regement would be shipping out to Sudan. That we would be sent to war.
- Ethne Eustace: You don't know where they were sending you, you said it yourself. You did it for me. No one in their right mind could call you a coward....” (continue)(continue reading)

Kate Hudson - Ethne Eustace
Heath Ledger - Harry Feversham

“She didn't just take off. We're friends, and friends don't just take off.”

Trey Parker - Alferd Packer

“- Nancy Hayes: I dropped out of high school, took a trip to Hollywood and hostessed at a strip club.
- Jack Ryan: Everybody hostesses, nobody strips.”
Sara Foster - Nancy Hayes
Owen Wilson - Jack Ryan

“I'm aware what tremendous feats human beings are capable of once they abandon dignity.”
Christoph Waltz - Col. Hans Landa

“- Rex: Mr. Lotso, do toys here get played with every day?
- Lotso: All day long! Five days a week.
- Jessie: But what happens when the kids grow up?
- Lotso: When the kids get old, new ones come in. When they get old, new ones replace them. You'll never be outgrown, or neglected. Never abandoned or forgotten.”
Wallace Shawn - Rex
Ned Beatty - Lotso
Joan Cusack - Jessie

“- Jenny Myer: Hello, Lane. How was your day?
- Lane Myer: Beth broke up with me.
- Jane Myer: Oh, that's nice.”
Kim Darby - Jenny Myer
John Cusack - Lane Myer

“- Suzanne Constantine: Please can we just get out of here as quickly as possible?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: It took two years to put this thing together. You really believe I can get off, without it?”

Veronica Hamel - Suzanne Constantine
Telly Savalas - Captain Stefan Svevo

“- Corny Collins: And now it's time to say goodbye to our very own fun-lovin', free-wheelin' little Brenda. Come on up here, Brenda. Brenda will be taking a leave of absence from the show. How long are you gonna be gone, Brenda?
- Brenda: Just nine months.”
James Marsden - Corny Collins
Cassie Silva - Brenda

“- Doctor: Why are you crying, Mary?
- Mary Hobbes: I miss my family. How come they won't come visit, Doctor?”
Lonnie Farmer - Doctor
Jurian Hughes - Mary Hobbes

“- Bainsley: I knew you just seemed just - well, you were lonely.
- Qohen Leth: You're wrong. We were always alone, never lonely.”
Mélanie Thierry - Bainsley
Christoph Waltz - Qohen Leth

“My parents did put the first two down payments on my childhood. Don't get me wrong, but they did also return me to the hospital as defective.”
Robert De Niro - Rupert Pupkin

- Doctor Rock: What does it say?
- Richard Boyle: "Fuck you" in Italian. Shit, she's gone back to Italy to her parents. Goddamnit!
- Doctor Rock: That's too bad, Richard. But at least she left the TV.

Jim Belushi - Dr. Rock
James Woods - Richard Boyle

“Here in St. Cloud's not even the decision to get off the train is easily made, for it requires an earlier, more difficult decision - add a child to your life, or leave one behind. The only reason people journey here is for the orphanage.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch

“I'm sorry to interrupt, but I notice this young lady's pathological attempt to project upon you her daddy issues of abandonment!”

Tilda Swinton - Dr. Shrink-Rom

“Abandonment is a death, for all of us.”
Harvey Keitel - Eddie Israel

“They pretend they're going to always be there for you, and then one day they pack up and move away and take their love with them, and leave their declawed cat to fend for herself! They leave her, wondering what she did wrong.”

Susie Essman - Mittens

Dogs don't like to be left alone. It's not like when you leave he goes, "Great, time to finish writing my novel!". No, when their humans leave, dogs get depressed, and they show it.
Janeane Garofalo - Abby

“- Dr. Grace Holloway: I'm going to miss you.
- The Doctor: How can you miss me? I'm easy to find. I'm the guy with two hearts, remember?”

Daphne Ashbrook - Dr. Grace Holloway
Paul McGann - The Doctor

“I do this! Time after time after time! I do all this shit for other people! And then I wake up and I'm empty! I have nothing!”
Jennifer Lawrence - Tiffany

“- Red Stovall: Mary was right to go back to her husband. What the hell did I have to offer a kid? Just honky-tonks and flop-houses. That's the life of a country singer, Hoss. Sound good to you?
- Whit: It doesn't sound too hot when you put it like that, but it sure beats picking cotton and living in a sharecropper's shack.”
Clint Eastwood - Red Stovall
Kyle Eastwood - Whit

You ever read the bible, Dan? I read it one time. I was eight years old. My daddy just got hisself killed over a shot of whiskey and my mama said "we're going back East to start over". So she gave me a bible, sat me down in the train station, told me to read it. She was gonna get our tickets. Well, I did what she said. I read that bible from... (continue)(continue reading)
Russell Crowe - Ben Wade

“Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. You must love me.”

Madonna - Eva Perón

“- Steve Freeling: No. I'll do it. Let me go.
- Diane Freeling: You can't go. You're the only one strong enough to hold the rope.”
Craig T. Nelson - Steve Freeling
JoBeth Williams - Diane Freeling

“Come on. Come on back to me. Don't be such a selfish bastard. You're the only person I can stand.”

Lesley Ann Warren - Molly