Diane Guerrero Quotes

No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.

Even in the depths of sleep, in which he had to satisfy his need for protection and love by curling himself up into a trembling ball, he could not rid himself of the feeling of loneliness and homelessness.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.

My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.

My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

I had very few friends. There was nobody I could trust. I left home when I was fifteen. I lived in Washington Square Park.

Not having a roof over your head at night must be frightening, cold, lonely and depressing. To be seriously ill as well must be beyond upsetting.

On my travels I, at least, did not see Serbia as a land of paranoiacs - much more as the huge room of an orphaned, yes, an orphaned, abandoned child.

Why should i care? Cause you werent there when i was scared. I was so alone.

I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

Ain't nobody gonna care enough to catch you fall.

By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.

There's never been a parent in my life.

You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

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.

I can't imagine anything worse than being just left alone, scared out of your mind.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.