Unlovable Quotes

• To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Inspirational, Success

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• Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.

  Tom Flynn

  Love, Wisdom, Rose

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• Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Dark, Two

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.242, Penguin

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• Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Mean, Humility

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• "You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer loves you back." "I don't know," I said. "On the surface, it seems an easy question. It should be so much easier to lose someone who doesn't love you, because why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you? But rejection's not an east road. A part of you always wonders what makes you so unlovable."

  Richard Paul Evans

  Love You, Love Is, Rejection

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water”, p.786, Simon and Schuster

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• Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.

  Dave Willis

  Marriage, Real, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Apr 17, 2017

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• God does not love us because we are lovable, have a pleasing personality or a good sense of humor, or at rare times show exceptional kindness. In spite of who we are and what we have done, God wants to pour out His love on us, for the unlovable are also precious unto Him.

  David B. Haight

  Kindness, Personality, Doe

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• I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

  Gillian Flynn

  Children, Soul, Adults

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.449, Broadway Books

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• It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

  Ashley Montagu

  Needs, Lovable, Individual

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• Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Giving, Grace, Return

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.32, David C Cook

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• When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.

  Bernie Siegel

  Forgiving, Unforgivable

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• Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that connection holds in our lives was confirmed when the main concern about connection emerged as the fear of disconnection; the fear that something we have done or failed to do, something about who we are or where we come from, has made us unlovable and unworthy of connection.

  Brené Brown

  Giving, Connections, Where We Come

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• Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to the parents of a dying child. It holds up victory over the inevitable and beckons us to crawl further over slicing shards, all the while pulling back, remaining just out of reach. It makes agony out of mere pain by pretending a different outcome could have been. It laughs at mankind's embrace of it after millennia of disappointment.

  Robert Liparulo

  Children, Pain, Disappointment

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• I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Night, People, Broken

  "Darkly Dreaming Dexter". Book by Jeff Lindsay, Chapter 5, 2004.

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• Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.

  Erma Bombeck

  Forgiveness, Kids, Acting

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• Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Past, People, Special

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.104, Macmillan

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• Today I will tell myself that I'm lovable. Just because some people haven't been able to love me in ways that worked doesn't mean that I'm unlovable. I've had lessons to learn, and some of them have hurt deeply, but I can still love, and I still am loved.

  Melody Beattie

  Hurt, Mean, People

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• If you don't think God's love for the unlovable is amazing, go try to love someone who hates you for a day. See if that helps.

  KB

  Hate, Thinking, Trying

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• The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable.

  Denver Moore

  Giving, Credit, Want

  Ron Hall, Denver Moore (2008). “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together”, p.132, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

  Anne Lamott

  Jealousy, Weakness, Ugly

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.86, Penguin

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• To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, People, Who God Is

  "Blue Like Jazz". Book by Donald Miller, 2003.

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• Faith means believing the unbelievable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Believe, Mean

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• I'd say art is with you. All around you. I'd say when there doesn't seem to be anyone else, there is art. I'd say you can love art how you wish to be loved. And I'd say art is a lifeline to the rest of us - we are out here. You are not alone. There is nothing about you that scares us. There is nothing unlovable about you, either.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Art, Writing, Wish

  Interview with Molly Gaudry, thelitpub.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

  Halle Berry

  Famous Love, Love You, Loving Yourself

  "It's Official: Halle Berry Is Still The Sexiest Woman Alive At 42!" by Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. Ocotber 8, 2008.

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• There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Iron, Three, Links

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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