Quotes About Rejection

Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.

I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

At our absolute limit, we were almost indifferent as to whether we did the deal or not. Meanwhile the seller had now alienated us, and we preferred not to have any further dealings with him. Consequently his deal was less attractive, and our top price now dropped below $405,000. Meanwhile we considered alternatives. We soon bought a better lot, built a new house, and spent twenty-two happy years there. The haggler's lot remained unsold for another decade.

1. We fear people because they can expose and humiliate us. 2. We fear people because they can reject, ridicule, or despise us. 3. We fear people because they can attack, oppress, or threaten us. These three reasons have one thing in common: they see people as "bigger" (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.

In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was preposterous and true and totally unacceptable.

A risky risk of all risks in the context of rejection and acceptance is expressing and confessing love.

Humanity is a great and high honour of humans, while racism is the worse and ugly face of human life; it is a disgrace and a rejection of humanity.

One cannot enforce one else, not to love it; however, it can abandon itself, not to respond regarding that.

A day in a man's life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.

ignoble or rebellious, what does it matter? I'm more interested

I thought of sex and sin; of my body and all the men in the world who would never sleep with it.

I looked at those patient huddlers on the [Embassy] benches who had hardly moved, and a horrible irony hit me: they wanted so badly to get into the States; I wanted so badly to stay out.

If his wife doesn't want him, I certainly don't, was my way of putting it.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

I felt that there was no irony, it was a real compliment. Then she added with sudden harshness: "I don't want to read anything else that you write." "Why?" She thought about it. "Because it hurts me," and she struck her forehead with her hand and burst out laughing.

I began to weep with loneliness. What was I, who was I? I felt pretty again, my pimples were gone, the sun and the sea had made me slimmer, and yet the person I liked and whom I wished to be liked by showed no interest in me.

I'm never going to fall in love with anyone and I will never ever ever write a poem.' 'I don't believe it.' 'It's true.' 'But people will fall in love with you.' 'Worse for them.

I couldn't calm down. Was it possible that Mario should leave me like this, without warning? It seemed to me incredible that all of a sudden he had become uninterested in my life, like a plant watered for years that is abruptly allowed to die of drought. I couldn't conceive that he had unilaterally decided that he no longer owed me any attention.

Forse, di fronte all'abbandono, siamo tutti uguali; forse nemmeno una testa molto ordinata può reggere alla scoperta di non essere amata.

E infine si mise a ridere e proclamò con una certa solennità: "Io non mi innamorerò mai di nessuno e non scriverò mai mai mai una poesia". "Non ci credo". "E' così". "Ma gli altri si innamoreranno di te". "Peggio per loro". "Soffriranno come questa Didone". "No, si andranno a fidanzare con un'altra, proprio come ha fatto Enea, che alla fine si è messo con la figlia di un re".