198 Quotes About Homeless
- Author Kenneth Eade
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No one really belongs; at least not in this world. If there were a heaven, maybe there, but, even if there were, in it would be the souls who could bear witness to the undeniable cruelty of life, the poverty of the unwanted.
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- Author Jodi Picoult
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When the elevator doors open there is only one other person inside it, a homeless man with electric blue sunglasses and six plastic grocery bags filled with rags. "Close the doors, dammit," he yells as soon as we step inside. "Cam't you see I'm blind?"[¶¶¶¶¶¶...]From the back, the homeless man shoves between us, his bounty rustling in his arms. "Stop yelling," he shouts. though we stand in utter silence. "Can't you tell that I'm deaf?
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- Author Jodi Picoult
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When the elevator doors open there is only one other person inside it, a homeless man with electric blue sunglasses and six plastic grocery bags filled with rags. "Close the doors, dammit," he yells as soon as we step inside. "Can't you see I'm blind?"[¶¶¶¶¶¶...]From the back, the homeless man shoves between us, his bounty rustling in his arms. "Stop yelling," he shouts. though we stand in utter silence. "Can't you tell that I'm deaf?
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- Author Nick Flynn
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Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended to live in the life raft, to drift years on end, in sight of land but never close enough.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Whenever I see a homeless person on the street, I think ‘That could be me in a few years time’.
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- Author Paige Dearth
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The worst poverty isn’t about not having enough money to survive. Poverty of love is the worst thing you can be deprived of.
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- Author Munia Khan
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His lone breaths- everywhere to be with himHope survives one more day, losing all fearWith the cold night's touch through shivered scheme,His new day reminds of another yearFrom the poem Sonnet For A Man (Part II)
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- Author Raynor Winn
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It’s six hundred and thirty miles and we’ll have to camp all the way. Pg 27
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- Author Shannon L. Alder
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Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.
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