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Quotes About Rejection

Leave me in peace, the sight of you is abhorrent to me.
~ Louisa May Alcott
You do not know him. He has no pity, and my defiance will but increase the excitement of the pursuit. I am solitary, poor and a woman; he powerful, rich and a man whom all fear. The world which rejects me though I am innocent will welcome him, the guilty, and uphold him.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Never resigned to his father's desertion and always fearing press exposure of his bigamy, John was still trying to lure his seventy-one-year-old father back to Eliza and away from the sinful second marriage.
~ Ron Chernow
Lamont laughed at the offer. "But
~ Ron Chernow
Hamilton had analyzed his own rejection thus: "I am a stranger in this country. I have no property here, no connections. If I have talents and integrity…these are justly deemed very spurious titles in these enlightened days.
~ Ron Chernow
Another boy might have been crestfallen, but Rockefeller was the sort of stubborn person who only grew more determined with rejection.
~ Ron Chernow
He wanted to make the world better, but, according to Rodney, the world wasn't interested.
~ Ron Rash
I spoke to ears that refused to hear.
~ Ronald Reagan
Ser maldito es saber que tu discurso no puede tener eco, porque no hay oídos que lleguen a entenderte. En esto se parece a la locura. Ser maldito es no coincidir con tu tiempo, con tu clase, con tu entorno, con tu lengua, con la cultura a la que se supone que perteneces. Ser maldito es desear ser como los demás pero no poder. Y querer que te quieran pero sólo producir miedo o quizá risa. Ser maldito es no soportar la vida y sobre todo no soportarte a ti mismo.
~ Rosa Montero
It seemed that shopping could provide consolation if one was unhappy; a buzz of excitement if one was bored; self-indulgence if one had been rejected. Extravagant and frivolous maybe, but better surely than self-pity, turning for comfort to casual lovers, or taking to the bottle.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
La hazaña de convertirse en lo que se es exige no únicamente el descubrimiento de los rasgos esenciales bajo el acicate de la pasión, de la insatisfacción, del hastío sino sobre todo el rechazo de estas falsas imágenes, que los falsos espejos ofrecen a la mujer en las cerradas galerías donde su vida transcurre.
~ Rosario Castellanos
Wolf Pack, ye have cast me out too. The jungle is shut to me and the village gates are shut. Why?
~ Rudyard Kipling
That's when he hit her, when he saw how scared she was. He couldn't bear it that she was frightened and asking for help. Asking for help is wrong. Because there isn't any such thing as help in this world.
~ Ry? Murakami
He's got five rings in his ear, eighteen gauge to ten gauge, but when I told him to get one in his nipple to match mine, and to get a Sailor Moon tattoo - because I like Sailor Moon? - or if not that, a skull, he stopped calling me.
~ Ry? Murakami
words, rejecting the doctrine of sin
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I've been Attainted." Ro stared at her. "You mean . . ." "I mean that I am no longer welcome within the Bajoran faith," Kira said calmly. "I'm forbidden from entering any temple, nor can I study any of our prophecies, or wear my earring, or look into an Orb, or even pray with other Bajorans. Ever." *
~ S.D. Perry
Harry, who meant the world to him, and who the world would deny him. Harry, whom he loved.
~ Sally Malcolm
A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.
~ Salman Rushdie
The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.
~ Sam Harris
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
~ William Hazlitt
I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
~ Henry Rollins
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.
~ Jim Valvano
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
~ Sylvia Plath