Mother Teresa Quotes

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.

Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.

Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

Many people feel that if they're lonely, that means that they're not likable or that they're broken in some way.

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.