Unloved Quotes - Page 3

• Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh

  Giving, Maternal Love, Grows

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers: A Novel”, p.308, Ballantine Books

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• Percy," my father said, "what exactly do you mean?" "Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents," I said. "They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason.

  Rick Riordan

  Father, Mean, Parent

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• It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again. She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.

  Chris Adrian

  Children, Heart, Medicine

  Chris Adrian (2011). “The Great Night: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

  William P. Young

  Wings, Bird, Shack

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, July 17, 2008.

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• Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of the world; for we are twenty-four hours then in His presence: in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless, in the unwanted, unloved, uncared for. For Jesus said, Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Prayer, Heart

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Absolute Love, Absolutes, Being Unloved

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1988). “Dare We Hope: "that All Men be Saved"? ; With, A Short Discourse on Hell”, p.118, Ignatius Press

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• Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.

  Todd Strasser

  Differences, People, Matter

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• Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Love, Song, Lonely

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.124, Macmillan

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• If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Emotional, Choices, Vulnerable

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Love involves more than just feelings. It is also a way of behaving. When Sandy said, "My parents don't know how to love me," she was saying that they don't know how to behave in loving ways. If you were to ask Sandy's parents, or almost any other toxic parents, if they love their children, most of them would answer emphatically that they do. Yet, sadly, most of their children have always felt unloved. What toxic parents call "love" rarely translates into nourishing, comforting behavior.

  Susan Forward

  Children, Healing, Parent

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• The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Rich, Pity

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  Banksy

  Dirty, Civilization, Role Models

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• That it's no good loving me because I'm never going to get married anyway and he'd just end up hating me later instead of sooner.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hate, Married, Ends

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.35, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

  David Levithan

  Jealous, People, Care

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.268, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.

  Frank Pittman

  Family, Mother, Children

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• To leave this life, to me, is a sweet prospect. When you read this I will be quite dead and no answer will be possible. All I can say is that I offered you love, and the best I could. All I got in return in the end was a kick in the teeth. Thus I die alone and unloved. As you sowed, so shall you reap.

  David Ferrie

  Sweet, Answers, Return

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• The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Believe, Miracle, May

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The Good Husband Of Zebra Drive”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• No being should be killed. No being should be unloved.

  Dick Gregory

  Should

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• Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed and thrown away.

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Thrown, Unwanted

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• It is better to be a slave to your beloved woman than a free man to the unloved one.

  Eric Berne

  Men, Beloved, Slave

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Iron, Three, Links

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

  Jeannette Walls

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

  "The Glass Castle". Book by Jeannette Walls, 2010.

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• When a man comes to die,
  no matter what his talents and influences and genius,
  if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him
  and his dying a cold horror.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Dying, Genius

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.363, Penguin

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• No matter what anyone says, it's much worse to be unloved than it is to be lost in the woods." "Sometimes, I think you've been lost in the woods all your life, Charlie Brown.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Thinking, Woods, Matter

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• There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Promise, World, Bothered

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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