Homeless Quotes

“My life was a wandering; I never had a homeland. It was a matter of being constantly tossed about, without rest; nowhere and never did I find a home.”
― Jan Amos Komenský, Labyrint světa a ráj srdce

“JUST LISTEN

“When your mind is quiet and you listen closely, you will hear the children weeping silently. If you can’t quite hear their cries, then listen with your eyes. These are the children of the streets, who have learned pain and suffering before they ever had a chance to experience life. Do not ignore their cries for help, for all they wish is that you will rescue them. They do not have a family that wants them, they don’t know how it feels to be loved and they’ve never lived anywhere that felt like home…the streets are where they find their voice and relief from all of the suffering.

Just listen and you’ll see them.”
― Paige Dearth, When Smiles Fade

“So I'm sitting in that damn chair, ready to die, and I say to her, 'You're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. I'm so damn glad you're going to kill me instead of some brainless, toothless druggie." Beckett smiled again at the memory of his almost-murder. "Then she traded the knife for her lips, and now she works for me." Beckett put his hands behind his head and flexed his giant biceps. "She won't tell me who hired her to come here. She's the deadliest person I've ever encountered. I still think she might kill me, but I can't stop looking at her.”
― Debra Anastasia, Poughkeepsie

“If all the Christians- I mean all of 'em- got outta the pews on Sundays and into the streets, we'd shut the city down.
We'd shut down hunger.
We'd shut down loneliness.
We'd shut down the notion that there is any such of a thing as a person that don't deserve a kind word and a second chance.”
― Ron Hall, Denver Moore

“When scarcity and deficiency are constant companions of homeless souls, a fluent relationship with the world is often stingingly missing. The environment becomes bleak and barren and ceases to be a fostering space. ("Homeless, down in the corner")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“And what's more, he'll go and live with his friend unless his friend is allowed to come in and live with him...His friend must have a silk cushion just like his and sleep in your room too. Otherwise he will go and sleep in the coal-cellar with his friend”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

“She had to kill him. She had to kill Beckett the next time she saw him or all she’d done to become an exquisite monster would be for nothing.”
― Debra Anastasia, Poughkeepsie

“He tried not to cry as he wondered if he would ever have a home again.”
― KayeC Jones, Mason the Mutt

“As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: 'The issue of demoncratic access to the park has also been raised by the increasing number of homeless New Yorkers. Poor people--from the 'squatters' of the 1850s to the 'tramps' of the 1870s and 1890s to the Hooverville residents of the 1930s--have always turned to the park land for shelter...The growing visibility of homeless people in Central Park osed in the starkest terms the contradiction between Americans' commitment to democratic space and their acquiescence in vast disparities of wealth and power.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

“If they’d caused you pain, I’d never have been able to live with myself,” he said as he backed up a step.



“You might want to find another place to sit. Those idiots could cook up a plan for revenge.”


“I can’t leave.” Green Eyes took a huge breath. “This is the only place where I get to see you.” He looked like a man who’d just bet his entire fortune and laid his cards on the table.”
― Debra Anastasia

“don't think you can ever forget her
don't even try
she's not going to budge

no choice but to grant her space
crown her with sky
for she is one of the many
and she is each of us”
― Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks

“In a cold night, even if there is only one homeless living on the streets, this means that you are living in a God damn bad society!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Dear Lord, let us pray for the persons who don’t have a family and spent Thanksgiving alone. Through the twist and turns, and events in their lives, or any situation that’s left them emotionally lost, alone and possible homeless, that they find warmth. The warmth you bring dear God, and your strength to change their situation. In Jesus name, we pray.”
― Ron Baratono

“I realised how terrible it must be to be at home everywhere for it means to be at home nowhere!”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights

“COVID-19 increased during the Hurricane Ian aftermath in Florida.”
― Steven Magee

“Taking away our homeless shame
and clothing us with a name, home”
― Loraine Masiya Mponela

“During the USA COVID-19 lock down, some landlords were rendered homeless because they could not legally evict the tenants from their own home.”
― Steven Magee

“ow a hobo is a different breed of cat than you think. Oh, people are getting educated to the idea that a hobo will work and move on, whereas a tramp will mooch and move on, and a bum will mooch and hang around, but you still find folks who are ignorant enough to call us bums.”
― ROBLES, JR.

“My health issues are now fully understood, treated and I am back to normal. It was a mix of amino acid deficiencies and low testosterone causing serious food intolerance and altitude hypersensitivity to occur. Low magnesium was causing sleep apnea and I now take magnesium supplements. I had also lost my circadian rhythm and it restored while I was homeless and camping outdoors for five months in the Hawaiian jungle. Based on my testing, I will have to take amino acids, magnesium and testosterone for the rest of my life. The sickness comes back if I stop the supplements.”
― Steven Magee

“My dear friend, if you ask me which is the most beautiful temple, the most beautiful mosque, the most beautiful church, the most beautiful synagogue, I will say to you: Whichever was demolished and built as a house and given as a gift to the homeless, I would say that is the most beautiful!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Many people were rendered homeless in the August 2023 Maui wildfires.”
― Steven Magee

“The Maui wildfire disaster turned into a sad story about government incompetence.”
― Steven Magee

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

“It is easier to blame and stigmatise the women sleeping in doorways than it is too over them help.”
― Bekki Perriman, Doorways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma and Resistance

“Always say unhoused instead of homeless so i'll know that its temporary and not an intrinsic aspect of my character, but i'm pretty sure that when she drives home at the end of each day she returns to a place that makes her feel homefull not just housed.”
― Margarita Engle, Wild Dreamers

“If I can get the people in Houston who are complaining about being without power in this heatwave after the hurricane to understand the unhoused argument about housing. Enjoy your roof.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“When you sit in your car long enough, you will find that this is what everyone is doing.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“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

“Cities have filled up with the homeless!”
― Steven Magee

“Never make a stranger your home, because they eventually leave. And when they do, they’ll take your sense of belonging with them, making you homeless and searching for a place that no longer exists.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja