Sam Hinkie Quotes

Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

It's even more of a torture not to work than to work.

Today Mitt Romney is 68 years old. It's kind of sad, a 68-year-old guy with no job, no future - wait a minute, that's me.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

I can't find a job. It makes me crazy.

I hate being out of work!

Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.

It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I was in an unusual situation. I was unemployed at the time. I was in good health, but I had reached the age of 66 and beginning to get social security, but I didn't have much of that. I had many years of unemployment before me.

I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

Tough times were when I didn't have a job and nobody called me.

When you lose your job and it is about football, I can quickly put things in order and move on.

Being out of work is very depressing. But luckily I haven't been there for a long time.

Not working makes you ill, sad, depressed. It ages you.

When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in.

I don't think it's healthy to have 68-year-old men, 70-year-old men thinking regularly about a traumatic experience that happened to them and thinking that they cannot talk about it with anybody, and no one wants to listen.

We already know that the experience of lockdown is a mixed bag. It is increasingly recognised that for many it can be hellish. Enforced leisure - if you are crippled with worry about debts, insecure job prospects, your family's health - is no holiday.

When your father loses his job you're not sure what the future is going to be. I was conscious that people were interested in what was happening to my father.