Unwanted Quotes

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

Nothing, Person, Poverty

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

Greatest, Sometimes, Poverty

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness, Feeling, Poverty

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa

Work, Lonely, Humble

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

Today, Feeling, Rather

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Joan Rivers

Baby, Knew, Radio

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
Ramana Maharshi

Freedom, Spiritual, Single

We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
Anne Lamott

Life, Society, Children

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
James Herriot

Terrible, Dump, Roadside

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Duer Miller

Feelings, Against, Weak

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.
Anna Chlumsky

Around, Child, Attention

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
Gro Harlem Brundtland

Children, Suffering, Means

Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.
Kit Bond

Home, America, Jobs

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

Husband, Lost, Old

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.
John Travolta

Pain, Emotions, Goes

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.
Scott Stapp

Love, Mistakes, Made

I wouldn't say I was bullied per se, but I did get a lot of unwanted attention because I was musical and stood out. In school you don't want to stand out; you want to blend in.
Debbie Gibson

School, Attention, Stand

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.
Allan Houston

Society, End, Children

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