48 Unlovable Quotes On Success In Life

These Unlovable quotes will motivate you.

Below you will find a collection of inspiring, happy, and encouraging Unlovable quotes, Unlovable sayings, and Unlovable proverbs.

Best Unlovable Quotes

1. “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
2. “”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
3. “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

4. “Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

5. “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
6. “Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.” ~ Dave Willis
7. “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
8. “It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable” ~ Ashley Montagu

9. “When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.” ~ Bernie Siegel

10. “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
11. “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

12. “Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.” ~ Tom Flynn

13. “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
14. “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

15. “Kids need love the most when they’re acting most unlovable.” ~ Erma Bombeck

16. “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
17. “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
18. “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
19. “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

20. “Faith means believing the unbelievable.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

21. “If there’s a message, it’s that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they’re not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.” ~ Helen Hunt
22. “Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you’re three or seven years old, it’s less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you’re living with a monster.” ~ Keith Ablow
23. “Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. I’ve had many years of recovery and therapy, years filled with intimate and devoted friendships, yet I still struggle. I know that when someone gets a big slice of pie, it doesn’t mean there’s less for me. In fact, I know that there isn’t even a pie, that there’s plenty to go around, enough food and love and air. But I don’t believe it for a second. I secretly believe there’s a pie. I will go to my grave brandishing my fork.” ~ Anne Lamott
24. “There are three iron links in the neurotic’s chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin

25. “Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.” ~ Brené Brown

26. “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
27. “Sexiness is a state of mind – a comfortable state of being. It’s about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.” ~ Halle Berry
28. “Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.” ~ Kathi Appelt
29. “If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.” ~ Carl Rogers

30. “I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?” ~ Libba Bray

31. “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
32. “Show me how to love the unlovable
    Show me how to reach the unreachable
    Help me now to do the impossible…Forgiveness” ~ Matthew West
33. “The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness.” ~ D. H. Lawrence
34. “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

35. “If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.” ~ Quentin Crisp

36. “Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up… because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.” ~ Cynthia Nixon
37. “Eleanor Roosevelt was painfully shy, painfully shy. So she overcompensated. In the same way that Nancy Reagan felt unattractive and unlovable and so everything had to be – hair had to be perfect, and the makeup and the clothes. Because she thought, “They don’t think I’m pretty.”” ~ Cynthia Nixon
38. “Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.” ~ Dorothy Day
39. “I think Nancy Reagan felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.” ~ Cynthia Nixon

40. “Even animals who sometimes seem unlovable to humans, have also feelings. They can suffer just as we do.” ~ Sabrina Le Beauf

41. “I think the whole concept of dating is deeply flawed, so maybe it’s a good thing to be undateable. There’s a difference between being unlovable and undateable.” ~ Mickey Sumner
42. “Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.” ~ Honore de Balzac
43. “Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.” ~ Bell Hooks
44. “Bring on the fruitcakes, we want a fruitcake for an unlovable seat.” ~ Matthew Parris

45. “Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

46. “The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway… it’s a paradox.” ~ Christiane Northrup
47. “All I’d ever heard my entire life in my family was, “Nobody wanted you, and we took you in.” When you get that into your head at a tender age, you really feel like you are an unlovable human being, and then you behave like one. That’s exactly what I had done. It took me many years to deal with my own violence and find my own niche.” ~ Sam Hamill
48. “Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

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