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Quotes About Rejection

Thinking that we know more than we do, therefore rejecting what we are given as experience, blinds us to our ignorance, which is the deep darkness where truth abides. And our wealth of ignorance grows and multiplies. Much
~ Marilynne Robinson
At the same time that we rejected the conception of a God who could be called loving or passionate, we ceased to attend to like qualities in ourselves.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Would you like to become my wife? Imbecile! What a question. It's my greatest dream!!!
~ Marjane Satrapi
He was so out of step with the youthful antiwar fervor of the period that he enlisted in the army at the height of the Vietnam War, only to be thrown out for lying about his age, education, and criminal past.
~ Mark Bowden
And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
~ Mark Haddon
companionship refused is worse than loneliness.
~ Mark Haddon
And then, after a while, she said, 'Christopher, let me hold your hand. Just for once. Just for me. Will you? I won't hold it hard,' and she held out her hand. And I said, 'I don't like people holding my hand.' And she took her hand back and she said, 'No. OK. That's OK.
~ Mark Haddon
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
~ Mark Helprin
Disdain is only as intense as similarity.
~ Mark Helprin
I found a note he'd left behind entitled 'Ciao': One just keeps saying, 'No...No...No...' Head bowed, hat in hand, A cringing, cunning little step back, With each dialectical evasion, Retreating, receding, 'no...no...no...' Until one simply disappears...
~ Mark Leyner
The writing life is punctuated by words, sentences, paragraph & pages. And by spurts of elation, inspiration, rejection & despair.
~ Mark Rubinstein
Micro-regulation is micro-tyranny, a slithering, serpentine network of insinuating Ceaucescu and Kim Jong-Il mini-me's. It's time for the mass rejection of their diktats. A political order that subjects you to the caprices of faceless bureaucrats or crusading judges merits no respect. To counter the Bureau of Compliance, we need an Alliance of Non-Compliance to help once free people roll back the regulatory state.
~ Mark Steyn
Leave him alone, you grahzny bratchny, and then he began the old whine about how nobody loved him.
~ Anthony Burgess
He suddenly began to look wretched, much as I had seen him look as a schoolboy: lonely: awkward: unpopular: odd; no longer the self-confident businessman into which he had grown. His face now brought back the days when one used to watch him plodding off through the drizzle to undertake the long, solitary runs across the dismal fields beyond the sewage farms: runs which were to train him for teams in which he was never included.
~ Anthony Powell
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
~ Anthony Powell
There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.
~ Anthony Robbins
The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.
~ Anthony Trollope
If a man lose a venture of money he can tell his friend; or if he be unsuccessful in trying for a seat in parliament; or be thrown out of a run in the hunting-field; or even if he be blackballed for a club; but a man can hardly bring himself to tell his dearest comrade that his Mary has preferred another man to himself.
~ Anthony Trollope
Miedo al rechazo... Hermanito, voy a decirte algo, tal vez lo único que aprendí en mi corta vida. Si la cuerda no fuera delgada, no tendría gracia caminar por ella.
~ Antonio Santa Ana
De verdad crees en los dioses? —Yo sí. —¿En qué te basas? —En que me aborrecen. ¿No es un indicio verosímil?
~ Aristófanes
I love him, oh! I love him; but he won't let himself be loved.
~ Aristophanes
You cannot be loved by someone who doesn't want to know you.
~ Armistead Maupin
Lea: I hate the world so much right now that I'm so scared of that day when the world starts hating me back for it. Greg: To hell with the world, Lea!! Fuck it if the world doesn't need you!! I need you!!
~ Arnold Arre
Diga-me, você gostaria de ir para a Terra? Seus olhos arregalaram-se de espanto e ela negou resolutamente, sacudindo a cabeça. — É um lugar ruim. A gente se machuca quando cai.
~ Arthur C. Clarke