(13 quotes found)
“First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.”
Lincoln Steffens
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
Mother Teresa
“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].”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Politics is the process of getting along with the querulous, the garrulous and the congenitally unlovable.”
Marilyn Moats Kennedy
“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
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody”
“I must learn to walk this long unlovely wintry way, looking for spectacles, shunning the cruel looking-glass, laughing at my clumsiness before others mistakenly condole, not expecting gallantry yet disappointed to receive none, apprehending every ache of shaft of pain, alive to blinding flashes of mortality, unarmed, totally vulnerable.”
Diana Cooper
“It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable”
Ashley Montagu
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
“I think the real bargains are what they would call the smaller, ignored and unloved companies.”
Mario Gabelli