Looking for sad quotes about feeling unwanted? We have rounded up the best list of feeling unwanted quotes, sayings, and captions (with images, and pictures) that you can relate to.
As human beings, we have a strong need to feel an important part of a relationship or community. But there will be moments when you feel left out or isolated amongst your group of friends, family, or in a relationship.
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Feeling unwanted is a complex and sad feeling when you are deeply hurt and may feel unloved and ignored by the people you love.
If you are tired of being ignored and it hurts like hell then stop feeling bad. It’s time to move on in life.
When you don’t get a text message from your girlfriend or boyfriend you feel avoided and you surely hate that feeling. If your best friend is neglecting you sort it out with him so that there is no misunderstanding.
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These deep quotes about being unwanted are divided into these sections;
- Feeling Unwanted Quotes
- Feeling Unwanted In Relationship Quotes
- Quotes About Feeling Unwanted
- Feeling Unwanted Quotes For Friends
These quotes might help you realize that you’re not the only one who has felt this way and help you in overcoming that sense of loneliness.
Don’t forget to check out our collection of feeling down quotes and feeling sad quotes that you can relate to.
Feeling Unwanted Quotes
- “I automatically distance myself when I feel unwanted.” – Unknown
- “Want to know a secret? I haven’t felt beautiful in months.”
- “I don’t want anyone who doesn’t want me.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.” – Bernard Branson
- “I hate feeling unimportant to the people that are the most important to me.” – Unknown
- “Your value does not decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Unknown
- “Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.” – Sigmund Freud
- “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” – Mother Teresa
- “Never make yourself feel like nothing to make someone else feel like everything.” – Sushan R Sharma
- “I hate this feeling. You know, feeling unimportant and unwanted is the worst feelings ever.” – Unknown
- “We all feel that we have things inside us that would make us unlovable if only people knew.” – David Smail
- “It’s very hard, feeling that you’re no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.” – Anton Chekhov
- “I automatically stop trying when I feel unwanted. I won’t reach out to you if it’s not being reciprocated. I don’t beg.”
- “But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.” – Adeline Yen Mah
- “The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.” – Mother Teresa
- “She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.” – Jedediah Berry
- “Everyone is beautiful; fat or skinny, tall or short, black or white. Don’t let anyone make you feel ugly & never make anyone else feel it.” – Unknown
- “Every day someone wakes up feeling unappreciated, unloved &/or unworthy. They won’t tell you. They still smile through the pain…” – Unknown
- “I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
- “We all choose to receive love and joy at the level of our self-love and self-esteem. So love yourself a little harder and life will get a lot better.” – Karen Salmansohn
- “Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you.” – Bryant McGill
- “God is the perfect image of love, so whoever makes you feel unimportant and unwanted. Don’t forget that there is someone who loves you dearly from Heaven.” – Regina Malabago
- “You were never created to be hurt or scared or unloved. You were created for a life of joy, and fun, and love, where you can dream big dreams and have grand adventures.” – Jade Miller
- “And when the burning inside your chest claws, insults you as forgotten, hideous, unloved every single night, you learn how to create iron, then a sword, and challenge those demons to a fight.” – Nikita Gill
- “But what attracted me to weeds was not their beauty, but their resilience. I mean, despite being so widely despised, so unloved, killed with every chance we get, they are so pervasive, so seemingly invincible.” – Carol Vorvain
- “If you feel unwanted or unappreciated where you are or by those you’re with, it only means you’re in the wrong place or with the wrong people. Hang in there. Someone else will see you for the true gift you are.” – LK Hunsaker
- “When we’re hungry, we eat food. When we’re out of shape, we go to the gym. When we’re tired, we go to sleep. But for some reason, when we’re feeling unlovable, we analyze ourselves to death until we feel worse.” – Jackson MacKenzie
- “I can say this: don’t give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable or flawed in any way. You deserve to be loved. You deserve kind words and an unwavering eye.” – Menna van Praag
- “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked, and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” – Mother Teresa
- “So often, we don’t see the beauty in ourselves. If we keep observing our reflection in the distorted mirrors of bad relationships, we start believing we are ugly and unlovable. And the flaws aren’t in how we look, but in whose eyes we’re seeing ourselves through.” – Jacqueline Simon Gunn
- “Feeling alone, Feeling unloved, Feeling unwanted and Feeling forgotten about is one of the worst feelings in the world, and the hardest to forget. But I hope you never forget that there is someone who’s always by your side and he’ll always love you, always wants you, and always cares about you no matter what.” – Ritu Ghatourey
Feeling Unwanted In Relationship Quotes
There will be times when in our most loving relationships, we start feeling ignored and neglected.
You feel alone and unloved. The emotion is very depressing when you see your things going wrong with the love of your life. When you feel your needs are being ignored by your partner (boyfriend/girlfriend) and you are not getting the time and attention you deserve, then it impacts your self-esteem.
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The loneliness at times is heart breaking and can make you feel totally unworthy. But in life we should never let anyone else decide our worth. So even you if you find yourself ignored or left out, gather the courage and move on.
- “Doesn’t anybody want me?”
- “I wish that I was what you wanted.”
- “I’m sorry I’m not what you wanted.”
- “I eat alone. I sleep alone. I cry alone.”
- “Somehow, I am always a third wheel.”
- “Be the love you never received.” – Rune Cazuli
- “Nothing worse than feeling unwanted by the only person you want to be with…” – Unknown
- “We were perhaps not so unlovable as we had come to believe.” – George Saunders
- “Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.” – G.K. Chesterton
- “You cannot feel unloved when you love others. Love is something you do.” – Anonymous
- “It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.” – Maurice Maeterlinck
- “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” – Hermann Hesse
- “I am not afraid of being unloved. But I am terrified of never learning to love.” – Michael D. O’Brien
- “There’s beauty in misery, sadness and things that are so unloved and forgotten.” – Ghaleya Aldhafiri
- “Strong people will automatically stop trying if they feel unwanted. They won’t fix it or beg. they will just walk away!”
- “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” – Mary Oliver
- “It’s a different kind of sadness when you crave someone and their attention and they don’t act the same toward you….”
- “Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.” – Vanessa Diffenbaugh
- “When love is real, it doesn’t lie, cheat, pretend, hurt you or make you feel unwanted. It’s supposed to be a cure to all your worries.” – Jhiess Krieg
- “I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.” – Tim O’Brien
- “Never allow a man to make you feel unwanted, if he not doing his job as a man, then allow a real man who’s willing to do that job make you feel wanted.” – Unknown
- “Many people feel they don’t have enough love. Feel unloved. Many people do not understand that the essence of love is giving and not demanding.” – Titon Rahmawan
- “Being single doesn’t mean that you are unloved, unwanted, unhappy, or unappreciated. In the end, it’s wiser to be single, than in the wrong relationship.” – Nishan Panwar
- “I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry… just make me feel alive.” – Joey Lauren Adams
- “Never feel alone, never feel unloved, never feel unwanted, never feel scared, never feel these emotions, because YOU are SPECIAL to ME and I want you to be HAPPY.” – Becka Miller
- “3 Rules for a lasting relationship: 1. never make your partner feel unwanted. 2. No matter how hard things get, never cheat. 3. Always have your partner’s back through the good and bad times.” – Unknown
- “One remedy for the fear of not being loved is to remember how good it feels to love someone. If you’re feeling unloved and you want to feel better, go love someone, and see what happens.” – Dossie Easton
- “I want to remind you that I love you, and that love is unlike anything I’ve ever felt before. If you feel unworthy or unwanted in any way… know that every breath you take is precious to me.” – Jamie McGuire
- “Just because you’re single today doesn’t mean you’re unloved, unwanted and unattractive. The reason you’re single because you haven’t been found yet by your mr or mrs right. But remember good things come to those that wait!” – Telisa McLaughlin
- “Remember what you must do when they undervalue you, when they think your softness is your weakness, when they treat your kindness like it is their advantage: You awaken every dragon, every wolf, every monster that sleeps inside you and you remind them what hell looks like when it wears the skin of a gentle human.”
Quotes About Feeling Unwanted
Feeling like you’re being avoided or ignored is a very disheartening feeling, specially from your loved ones.
These touching and emotional feeling unwanted messages, and sayings will help you comfort your pain and help you move on.
Also See: Feeling Ignored Quotes
To sort out the relationship its best to speak with your partner, friend or family and discuss. However, if things do not work out after that, you better move on.
Don’t forget to check out feeling like a burden and when things fall apart quotes if you are heartbroken.
- “I feel so unwanted.”
- “The worst feeling is feeling unwanted.” – Unknown
- “Thank you for reminding me I’m not special.”
- “Sometimes I just think I’m unlovable. And that’s that.”
- “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” – Rumi
- “I am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut.” – Rupi Kaur
- “No response is a response. And it’s a powerful one. Remember that.”
- “She wasn’t sad anymore, she was numb, and numb, she knew, was somehow worse.”
- “It’s okay, to feel unwanted, it hurts, it shatters, but then it’s okay.” – Monica S. Tambe
- “There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.” – John Travolta
- “I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.” – Wilbur Smith
- “Most relationships fail because one person was being loved too much and the other wasn’t being loved enough.”
- “My life might not be perfect. I have many challenges. But I also have too many blessings to be ungrateful.” – Karen Salmansohn
- “A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” – Mandy Hale
- “The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “It’s never loneliness that nibbles away at a person’s insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone.” – Rachel Sontag
- “You recognize that no one who sucks your energy, puts you down, makes you feel small, or is unloving to you is entitled to your time.” – Cleo Wade
- “You’re strong. You survived living through the main pain of it all. You will survive the healing time. Things will get better. Even better than better.” – Karen Salmansohn
- “I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one… That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.” – Mother Teresa
- “You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That’s what I felt. I’ve made a lot of mistakes I’m not proud of.” – Scott Stapp
- “Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
- “If you are feeling invisible, unwanted, or worthless, please know this is simply not true. You are beautiful, magical, needed, wanted and loved more than you can imagine. You make this world a better place.” – bliss
- “The voice in her said: imperfect, unlovable, victim, defeated, hide. The voice in her heart said: kind, peaceful, gentle soul, easy to love, winner. Release the insecurities and reclaim your heart, your purpose, your peace.” – J. Autherine
- “To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unlovable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.” – Jean Vanier
- “The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Feeling Unwanted Quotes For Friends
- “I feel so left out.”
- “When all you wanted was to be wanted.” – Unknown
- “Tell me when I am no longer needed and I shall go.”
- “Never put your time into the hands of the ungrateful.”
- “I hate feeling unwanted like I’m a burden or something.”
- “It must be awful to feel you’re not needed.” – Anne Frank
- “There are millions of fish in the sea…. but I’m a mermaid.”
- “Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.” – Rupi Kaur
- “I hate texting people first. I feel awkward, annoying and unwanted.” – Unknown
- “The worst feeling is feeling unwanted by the person you want the most.” – Unknown
- “There’s nothing better than feeling wanted; and there’s nothing worse than feeling unwanted.” – Unknown
- “It hurts the most when the person that made you feel special yesterday makes you feel so unwanted today.”
- “It hurts the worst when the person that made you feel so special yesterday…. makes you feel so unwanted today…”
- “Tired, scared, unappreciated, unaccepted, misunderstood, unloved, heartbroken…Yup, this is how I am feeling right now…” – Unknown
- “The feeling of being able to know and feel appreciated for your efforts can create a long-lasting impact on happiness and self-esteem.”
- “Feeling unwanted when you’re talking to someone is the most horrible feeling ever, especially when your trying your best.” – Unknown
- “Feeling unwanted by people who say they care about you is the worst feeling in the world…one day I will have a place to call my own.” – Unknown
- “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat… We must find each other.” – Mother Teresa
- “Sometimes she feels unloved. Sometimes she feels she will never gain approval from those people who are most important to her. But she’s brave and good-hearted and faces her life head-on.” – Sophie Kinsella
- “When people make you feel unwanted, don’t leave to make them feel sad or guilty, they won’t. Leave because you no longer have a reason to stay. Sometimes you have to be strong for yourself. Whats meant to be will end up good and what’s not – won’t.” – Ash Sweeney
Loneliness causes people to feel ignored, worthless, empty, alone, and unwanted. People who are lonely often crave human contact, but their state of mind makes it more difficult to form connections with other people.
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