Homeless Quotes

“Let my silence grow with noise
as pregnant mothers grow with life.
Let my silence permeate these walls
as sunlight permeates a home.

Let the silence rise from unwatered graves
and craters left by bombs.
Let the silence rise from empty bellies
and surge from broken hearts.

The silence of the hidden and forgotten.
The silence of the abused and tortured.
The silence of the persecuted and imprisoned.
The silence of the hanged and massacred.

Loud as all the sounds can be,
let my silence be loud
so the hungry may eat my words
and the poor may wear my words.

Loud as all the sounds can be,
let my silence be loud
so I may resurrect the dead
and give voice to the oppressed.

My silence speaks.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“If you want to celebrate a happy occasion, Do it by helping those who are in need.”
― Mohith Agadi

“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

“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Street children are lovely blossoms just dropped from the tree after a heavy storm. Now they need to be put together with a needle and threads of security and shelter to live into a beautiful circle of life’s garland”
― Munia Khan

“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The very concept of home has become tarnished, misty, elusive. As never before, we are living in a rootless age. So many of us are refugees, living out of suitcases, car trunks, cardboard boxes, desperate to go back to a home that no longer exists.”
― Chris Atack, The Hunger Star: Volume 2, The Wolfe Files

“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.”
― Kenneth Eade, Unwanted

“When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

“I stared down at my hands and saw the blood coat them, how warm and real something felt when it wasn’t just ink and stains. This was life and I was holding it in my hands. I drew my eyes back up and beneath the flickering streetlight and the throng of drunken cattle, I saw nothing else but the dead girl. Somebody out there had taken her life, her heart, and there I was with her warm, sticky blood. Feeling the most alive I’d felt in years.
I had to find him. I just had to.”
― Charlotte Munro, Down by The Mausoleum

“I don't know about homeless, but I'm never going to let you be hopeless. Or loveless. To be heartless however, well, that is your choice to make.”
― Melita Tessy, Battle of the Spheres: Crust, Mantle and Core

“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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?”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper

“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

“I will never again look at the homeless people the way I did before entering Bowery Mission.”
― Stevan V. Nikolic, Truth According to Michael

“Jesus wept:
This Prophet, Priest, King
Has a: Holy, Priesthood, Chosen!
This Refugee, Homeless, Healer
Has a Celebrity, TV, Mega - church?
God business to show business.
Where did it go wrong?
Jesus weeps.”
― David Holdsworth

“If anyone was ever justified in being depressed, he decided, it was most of the people in the room.”
― Taylor Grant, A Whiter Shade of Christmas

“At six years old we didn't have any money;
there was my mother, my brother and I.
We had a deadbeat dad; left us before we were
two, but she took us at Christmas-time to
downtown Los Angeles.
We had little cars going around in circles,
it was pretty cool, and decorations in the
window.
She gave my brother and I a dime and told
us, "Boys whole half of it each, give it to
the man ringing the bell in the bucket."
We put it in this bucket, we said, "Mom, why
did we give that man a dime?
That's like two soda pops."
This is 1951, two soda pops, three candy bars.
And mom said, "Boys, that's the Salvation
Army.
They take care of people that have no place
to live and no food.
And we don't have a lot of money, but we can
afford a dime this year.
Boys, always remember in life: give a little
something to those in need, they'll always
be somebody that's not as well-off as you
are.

No matter where you are or how far down you
are, try and help someone along the way."
It stuck with me.”
― John Paul DeJoria, Leading With Integrity: Build Your Capacity for Success and Happiness

“Charity begins on the street when you are homeless.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Don't say I'm lucky. Ever.”
― Faith Erin Hicks, The Nameless City

“Editors keep pushing
deadline strain while people sleep
on benches and subway grates;
a welter weight boxer dances
on the platform at 125th Street
station, commuters look unfazed...”
― Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking

“It's not a homeless life for me,
It's just that I'm home less
Than others like to be.”
― Akilnathan Logeswaran

“A homeless with hope is in a better situation than a hopeless with home!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The homes
I've built
in people
are falling
apart
and I'm
afraid
of being
homeless.”
― Ameena Karaja, Light•er

“I found myself thinking about Jacqueline, my second or third wife.”
― Donald O'Donovan, Night Train

“I left my village to make my home to a better place. I wandered from towns to cities and from cities to countries. The more I walked in search of home the more homeless I felt. It was only when I fell from skies, in wounds that I realized home was where I left.”
― Aquib Ali, Intrinsic Battles

“My life is not glamorous. I have no intention for it to be. I've seen enough real life TV series about the emotional price of "high end" shoes, the carving disappointment of documenting every cash withdrawal on lunch, dinner and beautified / colorized apparel, about the political correctness underwired in social media protesting instead of voting. Something about me feels more sympathy towards the guy who went for canned beer and cigarettes in the backyard at 2 pm rather than your 5 cents.”
― Ioana Cristina Casapu

“My home is gone and my job is gone. I have nowhere left to turn, so I’m in this for the long haul.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel