Blight Quote by George Bernard Shaw

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty,…

— Muriel Barbery

Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

— Samuel Johnson

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Everything that poverty touches becomes frightful.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“beyond blows and hunger there is something that hurts even more: poverty”

— Jacob Dinezon

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

— Anonymous

poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end…

— Gabrielle Roy

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then…

— Anonymous

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling