Unlovable Quotes

#1. I think the whole concept of dating is deeply flawed, so maybe it's a good thing to be undateable. There's a difference between being unlovable and undateable.

Mickey Sumner

#2. Today I will tell myself that I'm lovable. Just because some people haven't been able to love me in ways that worked doesn't mean that I'm unlovable. I've had lessons to learn, and some of them have hurt deeply, but I can still love, and I still am loved.

Melody Beattie

#3. The chilling thought occurred to me that breaking up with someone you love to criticize might be the only way to save yourself from becoming unlovable

Bob Smith

#4. Show me how to love the unlovable
Show me how to reach the unreachable
Help me now to do the impossible ... Fo rgiveness

Matthew West

#5. The child who acts unlovable is the child who most needs to be loved.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#6. If you grow up with a wholly negative self-image, thinking you're some kind of reject, an unlovable savage, you think you deserve to be beaten.

E.L. James

#7. The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn't easy.

Mary Connealy

#8. Maybe you've decided you're not a genius, that you're not brilliant, that you're not prosperous, that you're not wonderful, that you're not lovable. Well, you know what? You're both: you're unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time.

Debbie Ford

#9. More people care about you than you know, Scarlet. No matter how you got your scars." I covered my cheek, looking at her. "Not just those scars. The ones that make you think you're unlovable.

A.C. Gaughen

#10. Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.

Erma Bombeck

#11. If you are too occupied listening to the voice within you screaming how inadequate or unlovable you are, you won't be able to hear God whispering how much He loves you.

T.C. Slonaker

#12. Resounding ... with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

Kathi Appelt

#13. When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you're free.

Bernie Siegel

#14. Even animals who sometimes seem unlovable to humans, have also feelings. They can suffer just as we do.

Sabrina Le Beauf

#15. Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

Bell Hooks

#16. He smiled with the benevolence of somebody watching an unlovable toddler walk under a table and bang their head painfully.

Jonathan L. Howard

#17. In his memory there was a great tendency to downplay or completely forget their unlovable characteristics. [ ... ] The thoughts that came wanted to be wholly good.

Stephen King

#18. I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

Laura Fraser

#19. World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom

Jay Woodman

#20. I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

Gillian Flynn

#21. To be human, is to be able to love the unlovable, and hope when things appear hopeless

Sara Niles

#22. Bring on the fruitcakes, we want a fruitcake for an unlovable seat.

Matthew Parris

#23. Fundamentally I believed that I was unlovable.

Dani Alexander

#24. Do you think that eventually our kind becomes far enough removed from humanity that we transform into creatures that are untouchable and unlovable by humanity?" Magnus asked.

Cassandra Clare

#25. God loves creatures who have become unlovely and (one would have thought) unlovable.

J.I. Packer

#26. Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Honore De Balzac

#27. Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.
Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.
Presoak it in dance, music and art.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#28. But then, I deserve to lose you. For years you took care of me like a mother takes care of her child. You sacrificed for me. You loved me when I was unlovable and helped me when I scorned you. Saying thank you a thousand times wouldn't be enough. Saying I'm sorry a million times might be a start.

Gena Showalter

#29. Love those you find unlovable. The Lord has promised to reward you. - Helene C. Kuoni -

Gary Chapman

#30. They stay like this, in silence, both aware that they have created something together. Defiance. A pushing back of a darkness that no one has ever pushed at before. A wonderful, criminal liberty to love that which has been so viciously called unlovable.

Tony Burgess

#31. There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

Mignon McLaughlin

#32. To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

G.K. Chesterton

#33. Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.

Dave Willis

#34. We find it is when we feel no one could possibly love us that we are most eager for a God who says, I came to love the unlovable.

Tullian Tchividjian

#35. I was unlovable in his eyes and so therefore I was unlovable in my own eyes.

J.R. Rain

#36. You also need love. Your characters need to love something, otherwise they will be unlovable.

James Franco

#37. It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable.

W. Somerset Maugham

#38. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

G.K. Chesterton

#39. She possesses what someone once described to me as all the unlovable virtues.

Isaac Asimov

#40. It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

Ashley Montagu

#41. I know I seem unlovable and impossible at times, but if you'll take the time to understand what my needs are, I'll do the same for you. Then we can have a relationship filled with passion, excitement, and sexual fulfillment. - Light Her Fire

Ellen Kriedman

#42. God does not love us because we are lovable, have a pleasing personality or a good sense of humor, or at rare times show exceptional kindness. In spite of who we are and what we have done, God wants to pour out His love on us, for the unlovable are also precious unto Him.

David B. Haight

#43. Just because someone isn't willing or able to love us, it doesn't mean that we are unlovable.

Brene Brown

#44. If you don't think God's love for the unlovable is amazing, go try to love someone who hates you for a day. See if that helps.

KB

#45. Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

Ruth Reichl

#46. What is it about me that makes me so fuckin' unlovable to someone like Georgie Price? I'm strong. I'm tall. I can change a flat. I can hold my breath for at least two minutes solid. I've got a big dick. What more do girls want? Manly tears? I mean, damn. Throw a brother a bone already.

Jessica Clare

#47. If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

Carl Rogers

#48. If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

Quentin Crisp

#49. The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable. The perfect love of God don't come with no conditions ...

Ron Hall

#50. Your friend is convinced she is unlovable, unreachable. Depression can do that to a person. She thinks no one can understand her. She ignores all evidence to the contrary, and it has led her to make some very tragic decisions.

Sarah Fine

#51. I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable or flawed in any way. You deserve to be loved. You deserve kind words and an unwavering eye.

Menna Van Praag

#52. She was not sure if she would want him to have known; we do not always wish for those for whom we long to know that we long for them, especially if the longing is impossible, or inappropriate ... to be loved by the unlovable was not something that most people could cope with.

Alexander McCall Smith

#53. I am unlovable ... I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

Jeff Lindsay

#54. World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom

Jay Woodman

#55. The only thing worse than an unlovable woman was an unlovable woman who whined about not being loved.

Courtney Milan

#56. Unchecked expressions of anger often lead to our making negative statements that communicate to our children that we think they are unlovable.

Nancy Samalin

#57. I think part of her feared that if Mother could leave her that way, she must be unlovable. And of course, she wasn't.

Polly Horvath

#58. You are capable of loving the unlovable.
The grace of God gives you the power to love.
It also takes conscious effort and decision to choice to love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#59. Someone once told me that everyone deserved to be loved.
Even the unlovable?
Maybe especially them.

Glenn Beck

#60. If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.

Helen Hunt

#61. I want to ask him if it's possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

Libba Bray

#62. The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway ... it's a paradox.

Christiane Northrup

#63. Saigon was loved precisely because it was so unlovable - its squalor, its biblical, Job-like misfortune, its imminent, hoevering doom.

Tatjana Soli

#64. Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

Halle Berry

#65. You have no chose but to assume it's your fault, that you're unlovable. And the feeling wraps around you until it becomes a prison, and you find yourself barricading that doors against anyone who wants to come in.

Lisa Kleypas

#66. I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

Amity Gaige

#67. Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

Anne Lamott

#68. Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.

Tom Flynn