297 Quotes About Homelessness

I wish someone would tell me it would be alright. I wish someone would tell me that I am not alone.

Because of you, I am damaged, and I’ve been paying for your reckless actions since birth!!

Mentally I am in a cage, hunted, traumatized, trapped, unable to dream and to love because of you!

Everyone, including you, dealt me their hand of cards of straight-up bullshit.

When I return the energy that you all give me, all of a sudden, you all want to act like the victim—and I am the bad guy! How is that? When you all are the ones who fucked me over.

My deck of cards is not giving out any more sympathy cards. I do not have any more sympathy cards to give.

The one thing I have craved all my life is to be loved. I never thought in my wildest dreams that a person had to beg to be loved. I guess some of us have to search for it until we find it. I guess the love I want is hiding from me and doesn’t want to be found.

Please remember, these homeless or long-term unemployed people were not born this way, they had an accident that brought them to where they are today. Allow them to one day tell the story of this perfect stranger who changed their life without asking for anything in return.

I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.