Homelessness Quotes: top 75 famous quotes about Homelessness

Homelessness Quotes & Sayings

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Your lifelong rebellion against all forms of authority stems from the infant's desire to murder the father and possess the mother. — Donald O'Donovan

Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere — Gyorgy Lukacs

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams. — Karen Russell

Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas. — Mona Charen

They needed someone to hate, a tangible focus for their remorse and disappointment, and I'd been elected, the projection of their own inner hell. — Donald O'Donovan

Birth, copulation, death. You come out of one hole and you end up in another one. It's a pretty short trip. — Donald O'Donovan

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to. — Iain Duncan Smith

It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying. — Marilynne Robinson

Nothing is 'wrong' with me, Dan. What's wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily. — Martin Hopkins

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well. — Anthony Mackie

Like the dung beetle, I had my comfortable burrow and my ball of sustenance, and like the dung beetle I was happy. — Donald O'Donovan

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers. — Garry Trudeau

Having a job is like having a lobotomy. — Donald O'Donovan

Above all others I pity the homeless: where can they go to masturbate? — Robert Clark

I love LA! The freeways, the cars, the smog, the glitter, the glitz, the sleaze, the prostitutes, the poison that falls from the sky. — Donald O'Donovan

And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe's Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol content. — Donald O'Donovan

We are all refugees, and we have the scar to prove it. — Donald O'Donovan

I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have. — Paul Bettany

Don't worry. I don't plan on making homelessness my career. — Katherine McIntyre

The enemy never sleeps! — Donald O'Donovan

Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling. — Munia Khan

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon. — Martin Hopkins

Compassion goes out looking for suffering, scouring the earth for poverty and misery and pain, the same way the cops look for criminals. — Donald O'Donovan

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening. — Daphne Zuniga

I'm living the life of an urban hunter-gatherer - again. — Donald O'Donovan

It's been my experience in life that if you step back and simply allow events to take their course, things will usually work out okay. Or they won't. — Donald O'Donovan

Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness. — Kevin Nealon

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it's a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master. — Sol Luckman

I don't know. I got nothing. No house, no people, no place. Maybe that's troubles. Don't I say? — Alex La Guma

LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin. — Mallory Ortberg

His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost. — Craig Stone

Narcissism is as profitable to a model as scruffiness is to a homeless person. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Key to overcoming the challenges in life is to make up your mind to overcome the Challenge — Carlton Young

My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do. — Craig Stone

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there. — Henry Cisneros

Nowhere do you see a real, integrated, full-blooded man or woman who shines like a beacon in this sea of disjointedness. — Donald O'Donovan

I'm nothing more than a talking urinal cake. The world is pissing on me. — Donald O'Donovan

I want to avoid people, because there's only one thing worse than being homeless, and that's people who are not, knowing that you are. — Craig Stone

Meditation doesn't lead to enlightenment because in meditation the ego is trying to destroy the ego. — Donald O'Donovan

Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about. — K.A. Applegate

Most families are destroyed from the inside, because they allow themselves to be conquered by others from the outside. — Carlton Young

I was born under that star, the dung-beetle star. — Donald O'Donovan

HOMELESSNESS ... is neither a disease nor crime ... but a very serious problem! — Timothy Pina

City's effort to end homelessness among veterans is different than how things used to be in L.A. — John Carlos Frey

My life was a wandering; I never had a homeland. It was a matter of being constantly tossed about, without rest; nowhere and never did I find a home. — Jan Amos Komensky

Aren't we all homeless without a home inside our mind? — Munia Khan

Los Angeles is a mother that devours her children. — Donald O'Donovan

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart. — Tyra Banks

I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them. — Anthony Liccione

You came out kicking and screaming, reluctant as hell to leave, and you spent the rest of your life trying to get back in. — Donald O'Donovan

Sleep, ladies. I will be your St. Florian." Tomaso — Eileen Granfors

Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath. — Craig Stone

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile. — C.D. Wright

Quit looking for an answer, Jim. There fuckin' ain't one. Fuck yeah, I'm still looking for God's telephone number. — Jim Goldberg

Home's where you go when you run out of homes. — John Le Carre

Today's society is wanting in such a way that Honor, Integrity, Trust, Compassion, Empathy are left for the homeless and their pets. — Solange Nicole

The homelessness of nature, its utter indifference to human existence, disclose to the infinite player that nature is the genius of the dramatic. — James P. Carse

Here comes the train; there goes the pain! — Donald O'Donovan

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America. — Jewel

Jesus experienced homelessness at Christmas so that we could experience a love we could never lose. — Timothy Keller

We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness. — Millard Fuller

Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin. — Craig Stone

Dear God, please make me believe that life has some sort of meaning and purpose. — Donald O'Donovan

I love writing, but I would be able to love it more if that love wasn't motivated by fear of homelessness. — Jenny Trout

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing. — Jonathan Kozol

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend. — Wallace Stegner

It's not a homeless life for me,
It's just that I'm home less
Than others like to be. — Akilnathan Logeswaran

Something critical is missing in places that care for broken and needy people if the only people there are also broken and needy. — Mike Yankoski

It was meant to be, two trolls living in a tree. — KayeC Jones

Written for the Homeless
My soul does not find mercy -
Somewhere on the bank of oblivion;
There,
Where hunger freezes my bones to death. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Los Angeles, this anthill, this slag heap, the city where I suffered and grappled with life and was defeated, and where I finally triumphed. — Donald O'Donovan

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness ... No one feels he belongs here. — Gerald Stanley Lee

We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so. — Harold Edmund Stearns

What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness. — Jewel

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to. — Edwin Booth