Homeless People Quotes

“Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“While there are millions of hungry people all around the world, while there are thousands of homeless people in every country, while some continents are in a horrible poverty, while there are not enough schools, not enough hospitals in the entire world, building churches, mosques, synagogues or temples or spending money on guns, on war industry are the greatest treasons to humanity!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“His body had become a companion which seemed always about to leave him: it had its own pains which moved him to pity, and its own particular movements which he tried hard to follow. He had learned from it how to keep his eyes down on the road, so that he could see no one, and how important it was never to look back - although there were times when memories of an earlier life filled him with grief and he lay face down upon the grass until the sweet rank odour of the earth brought him to his senses. But slowly he forgot where it was he had come from, and what it was he was escaping.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

“They [homeless people] are constructed ideologically to be oppressed to the level of losing their humanity. It is not by chance it is a design.”
― Bruno De Oliveira, Constructed To Rot: A Critical Reflection On Homelessness

“Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling.”
― Munia Khan

“There are millions of homeless people in the world because humanity does not have a proper conscience!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There were some places, and streets, where he did not venture since he had learnt that others had claims there greater than his own - not the gangs of meths drinkers who lived in no place and no time, nor the growing number of the young who moved on restlessly across the face of the city, but vagrants like himself who, despite the name which the world has given them, had ceased to wander and now associated themselves with one territory or 'province' rather than another. All of them led solitary lives, hardly moving from their own warren of streets and buildings: it is not known whether they chose the area, or whether the area itself had callen them and taken them in, but they had become the guardian spirits (as it were) of each place. Ned now knew some of their names: Watercress Joe, who haunted the streets by St Mary Woolnoth, Black Sam who lived and slept beside the Commercial Road between Whitechapel and Limehouse, Harry the Goblin who was seen only by Spitalfields and Artillery Lane, Mad Frank who walked continually through the streets of Bloomsbury, Italian Audrey who was always to be found in the dockside area of Wapping (it was she who had visited Ned in his shelter many years before), and 'Alligator' who never moved from Greenwich.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

“Give me a sandwich and think you saved the world? It don't work like that! God sent you to give me two pieces of bread with a slice of cheese and a flimsy circle of bologna and cheap bright yellow mustard and that's suppose to make for ten years living in a cardboard box? God loves me because you gave me a half-assed sandwich? I'm homeless- not crazy!'....' That ain't good enough' the bum said. 'I gotta few things you can tell your god the next time you pray in your warm house with a toilet in it and a whole refridgerator of food that you'd never give to bums like me because it costs too much and it ain't no bum food. I bet you got a dog that eats better than me.”
― mathew quick

“Home was never a dream for homeless people as they used to have their homes. Living in a home was their reality. Now we need to help them to find the lost-reality again.”
― Munia Khan

“A homeless person should know that many souls feel utterly homeless in spite of living into the bodies of wealthy homeowners”
― Munia Khan

“Treat him as a friend and save a life - A homeless man is not a leper.”
― sir kristian goldmund aumann

“As the director of one of the agencies providing free mental health services says, the Audubon Society spends more time, care, and money counting birds than we do counting homeless people.”
― Danielle Steel, A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless

“And there are programs in every city designed to assist them to get off the streets, or so they say. But in truth only the most functional among the homeless are able to access these programs. Lines are endless, forms are impossible to decipher, qualifications can't be met, standards don't apply.”
― Danielle Steel, A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless

“...problems around sleeping, fatigue, boredom, killing time, storage, health, sex, along with harassment and dozens of unpredictable difficulties encountered on the street -- were some of the 'little murders of everyday life' that confronted homeless women.”
― Elliot Liebow, Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women

“Homeless people go to bed freezing and wake up shaking in the morning, even if they have a sleeping bag. If they don’t have a sleeping bag, it’s unlikely they’ll get any sleep during the night. They shake all night and sleep during the day. If it wasn’t for the soup runs many of these people would die. So I say that people who’ve been unable to find a job should be ‘volunteered’ into food bank work”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“Can you…explain this word to me?” she asked, looking at the word…written: Broke(n). “It…means I am broke and broken”
― S.T. Jones, Broke[n]

“I have the liberty to defecate anywhere I like,
For my mother has no privacy to pee.”
― Vinod Varghese Antony, A Candle Of Light: A Collection Of Poems

“Abortive time: unwilling to tarry
Daylight begins to hide into the heat
His moonless night desires to be starry
Those lame knees want to break down on his feet

From the poem Sonnet For A Man (Part I)”
― Munia Khan, To Evince the Blue

“Like you, I know people who drink, people who do drugs, and bosses who have tantrums and treat their subordinates like dirt. They all have good jobs. Were they to become homeless, some of them would surely also become 'alcoholics,' 'addicts,' or 'mentally ill.”
― Elliot Liebow, Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women

“For most homeless women, then, jobs by themselves were not a way out of homelessness, even if one discounted the large number of women who were too old, too sick, or otherwise too disabled to work.”
― Elliot Liebow, Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women

“When Jesus came to earth, though, he clearly preached a different message. He often communicated messages that went against how society and culture teach us to operate.”
― Terence Lester, I See You: How Love Opens Our Eyes to Invisible People

“Society inures us to acts of immorality and decadence. We passively accept violence and exploitation as part of the cultural normative. When the Wall Street Kings crashed their money mobile, Congress was quick to pass bailout bills. How many of these same Congressmen and Wall Street millionaires do you think ever reached into their pocket to buy a homeless person a sandwich?”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Sometimes we must do for others what God puts on our hearts to do . . . But things don't always work out the way we expect or hope they will. We can't always be assured that the person we're trying to help will accept our love and help. And we can never expect them to appreciate what we try to do for them. We just have to do our best and leave the rest to God.”
― Denise George, Johnny Cornflakes: A Story about Loving the Unloved

“The problem is homelessness not houselessness. When you are homeless you are missing more than just a bedroom. He added that working there made him realize what people really need in life.. After I spoke about my experience of mental health problems with them, I got to talk to the man sitting next to me. He was about my age. He looked like he'd been through a lot, mentally and psychically, but he was smiling. He said he'd become homeless after his relationship had broke down and he'd fallen into a depression that he'd tried to deny.. He told me that the center had saved his life. He pointed vaguely to the door and told me that 'out there' life didn't make sense. He got lost in it.”
― Matt Haig, Notes on a Nervous Planet

“Dear Pavement,
The sun used to be the only thing to warm you, and now it’s body heat—a mingling recipe of human flesh and cockroach, of human flesh and rodent, of human flesh and tossed quarters. A cheek rests on you, a cheek capable of being kissed by a bishop, a cheek once held in a mother’s palm, a cheek that deserves more than the prickly pebbled pillow you are.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“The real invisibles of this world are not the fabricated beings of the human mind like angels and demons, but the homeless of the dirty streets!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The value of homelessness is that it makes you value your home.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Vagrants huddled in doorways, their hands tucked into their armpits, hats pulled down low, like sleeping birds. But they were city birds, dull in plumage and faded into their corners.”
― Byrd Nash, Ghost Talker

“There are surreal ghosts of the night: Cleaners who silently sweep the dark streets while you sleep, homeless people lying on cold stones, tired workers who collect garbage until the break of dawn. If you are still looking for the ghosts of the night when these people are around, you are blind, very blind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Addressing homelessness demands thoughtful, compassionate action. (Texas HB 1925: Criminalizing Homelessness Is Not the Answer – blog)”
― Carlos Wallace