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Quotes About Unwanted

Raymond Carver read his poem "Late Fragment": "And did you get what / you wanted from this life even so? / I did. / And what did you want? / To call myself beloved, to feel myself / beloved on this earth." Mother Theresa concluded, near the end of her days, "I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody [to no one].
~ Phil Cousineau
Mother Teresa once said, "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the greatest poverty." To this I will add: Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.
~ Adeline Yen Mah
You have the singular ability to turn up exactly where you are most unwanted." She
~ James Swallow
Unwanted, unasked, unwelcome as ever, here I am.' 'Again,' said Lymond.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Don't pretend you want to talk to me, I know you hate me." "No, I don't." "Yes, you do, everybody does. It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me. Even robots hate me. If you just ignore me I expect I shall probably go away.
~ Douglas Adams
You would hate people if you were like me… If you weren't wanted.
~ Agatha Christie
Not selfish things, not things for herself; who could give to unwanted children love, care, a home. All these things she could buy for them, but not their love for her.
~ Agatha Christie
She was made for her lord. Nobody is asking her if she wants him. It is bitter twisting to be shut up with a person you are not liking very much. I think she is often longing for the time when she was flowers on the mountain, and it is making her cruel, as the rose is growing thorns.
~ Alan Garner
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
There was someone from China who came down to my house and locked himself outside the gate. He wanted to marry me and created a lot of trouble. I had to eventually report to the police and put him behind the bars.
~ Asha Parekh
To charakterystyczna cecha cywilizacji: niechciane,niezamawiane marzenia
~ Will Ferguson
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
~ Mother Teresa
No driven man hears unwanted counsel.
~ Janny Wurts
You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.
~ Rick Riordan
You're a stalker with hooves.
~ Rick Riordan
The past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted.
~ William Trevor
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.
~ Jean Vanier
Movies endorsed unwanted ideas by putting them into story form and resolving them up there on the screen. The goal was, as always, identification, but also relief.
~ Jeanine Basinger
It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place.
~ Jeff Kinney
I am standing somewhere underground, in an underworld, with all the others. I never wanted this.
~ Alice Notley
She understood then what Nana meant, that a harami was an unwanted thing; that she, Mariam, was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home, acceptance.
~ Khaled Hosseini
To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.
~ zelazny roger iii
Usually the last thing anyone or anything needs is me.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
This pattern—portraying unwanted changes as American or a consequence of Americanization—has been a prerogative of not only the German Left. Indeed, threats of alleged "Americanization" are voiced among conservatives just as readily to discredit their Social Democratic opponents.
~ Andrei S. Markovits