See Also: ALONENESS, BEARING, FRIENDSHIP

1. Abandoned as a used Kleenex —Anon
2. Abandoned, like the waves we leave behind us —Donald G. Mitchell
3. Cast off friends, as a stripper her clothes —Anon
4. Cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack —Oliver Goldsmith
5. (My youth has been) cast aside like a useless cigar stump —Anton Chekhov
6. Chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse —Edith Wharton
7. Deserted as a playwright after the first night of an unsuccessful play —W. Somerset Maugham
8. Deserted as a cemetery —Anon
9. Desolate … as the dark side of the moon —Pat Conroy
10. Discard like a withered leaf, since it has served its day —John Gould Fletcher
11. (What have we come to when people … could be) discarded … like an old beer can —May Sarton
12. Discarded … like used bandages —Louis MacNeice
13. Discard like a bad dream —Anon
14. Divest himself of his profoundest convictions and his beliefs as though they were a pair of old shoes whose soles had come loose and were flapping in the rain —Irving Stone
15. Feeling quite lost … like a fly that has had its head taken off —Luigi Pirandello
16. Felt stranded, as if some solid security has left him, as if he had, recklessly and ruthlessly, tossed away the compass which for years had kept him straight and true —Carolyn Slaughter
17. Leaving me alone like a shag on a rock —John Malcolm
18. Left like balloons with the air let out —Gloria Norris
19. Left high and dry like a shipwreck in a drained reservoir —Thomas McGuane
20. Neglected as the moon by day —Jonathan Swift
21. People had fallen away like veils —Susan Richards Shreve
22. Put off [as religious faith] quite simply, like a cloak that he no longer needed —W. Somerset Maugham
23. Shed [adult reality for past] like a snake sheds an old and worn skin —Guy Vanderhaeghe

    Vanderhaeghe used the snake comparison to describe someone shedding the reality of the present for the past.

24. Stood like a forgotten broom in the corner —Eudora Welty