Abandoned Calls

Famous quotes containing the words abandoned and/or calls:

    “Old and abandoned by each venal friend,
    Here H[olland] took the pious resolution
    To smuggle some few years and strive to mend
    A broken character and constitution.”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

    “Dust rises from the main road and old Délira is stooping in front of her hut. She doesn’t look up, she softly shakes her head, her headkerchief all askew, letting out a strand of grey hair powdered, it appears, with the same dust pouring through her fingers like a rosary of misery. She repeats, “we will all die”, and she calls on the good Lord.”
    —Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)