Quotes About Being Unwanted

#1. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa

#2. We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Mother Teresa

#3. To look forward to whatever flowed through the doors. To save a life? Two lives? I felt proud. The burden of treating the intractable, untreatable, unplaceable, unwanted, had been replaced by the fantasy of being a real doctor, dealing with real disease.

Samuel Shem

#4. Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Mother Teresa

#5. There was no escape from being unwanted. And that was the truth that struck at me the most deeply.

Julianne Donaldson

#6. The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Mother Teresa

#7. Thanks to the unwanted privilege of being the oldest employee.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#8. You gotta lay down the law; being nice or polite is a weakness that only encourages unwanted attention. I'd be less of a bitch if I didn't have to worry about getting my motives twisted. Sometimes you just have to be rude.

Xandrie Kovak

#9. I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

Nina Bawden

#10. If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

#11. A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

Jean M. Auel

#12. In the end, Nora, there's only time. All we have is time ... and even if this wasn't happening, we still don't ever have much ... no one does. We only have the moment we're in. We have right now.

Dennis Sharpe

#13. For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

Kim Campbell

#14. I think the deeper we go, the less likelihood we'll have of being recognised as something unwanted. It's like the human body - the greatest density of pain receptors lies in the skin.

Alastair Reynolds

#15. Whether you are watching a video or playing a game, whether you are doing work or fielding an unwanted phone call, whether you are being successful or smarting from failure - in the ordinary context of daily living, you show the power and viability of Christian faith.

Tedd Tripp

#16. The desert, being an unwanted place, might well be the last stand of life against unlife. For in the rich and moist and wanted areas of the world, life pyramids against itself and in its confusion has finally allied itself with the enemy non-life.

John Steinbeck

#17. The # poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.

Mother Teresa

#18. To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.

Gore Vidal

#19. Being unwanted is the biggest disease in the world

Mother Teresa

#20. The biggest diease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.

Mother Teresa

#21. The knowledge of rejection, of being unwanted, is more terrible to live with than anything else, and a rejected child will usually never get over it.

Jennifer Worth

#22. Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.

Caitlin Flanagan

#23. She was lucky to be wanted not desired though, worse pain is the feeling of being unwanted in love.

Pushpa Rana

#24. Don't hoo, hoo, hoo me. There's a fine line between hoo, hoo, hoo and hiel, hiel, hiel.

Bobcat Goldthwait