Quotes About Rejection

You can't has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.

there was no awareness, just a habitual connection between an attitude of rejection or acceptance and its common physical expression. You can see why the common admonition to "act calm and kind regardless of how you feel" is very good advice: you are likely to be rewarded by actually feeling calm and kind.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that." —THOMAS NAGEL, AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER (1937–), ETHICIST AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHER

being needed was not the same as being accepted.

that being needed was not the same as being accepted.

In Brueghel's hands, Ovid's tale of a son's willful rejection of his father's wisdom becomes a story about the need for a kind of humility—for, you might say, perspective; an admonition about what we miss when we are intent on our own narratives, about the dangers of mistaking the foreground for the whole picture.

At eight years old, I already felt the imbalance of a world that never wanted me to forget that I had nothing.

Bye Felicia get the fuck off my property." "Who is Felicia?" "You bitch! Now, bye.

that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

I didn't know how to feel. I'd been rebuffed. I hadn't even been trying to buff.

I used to think all that game playing was par for the course and even kind of exciting. It just felt logical to pursue a boy the same way I applied to college—by expending exorbitant time and energy showing what a great catch I am and what a perfect match we'd be, so that after a lengthy waiting period I might get accepted. But now the idea of reliving any version of that charade seems like hell.

Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.

Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

We're afraid others will see our flaws, weaknesses and insecurities. We're afraid if others really knew us, they would reject us. We feel like fakes and frauds in a world that seems to have it all together.

Decadent self-expression has no place in rock and roll.

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence. I cringed with hate whenever I heard other children laughing, as they played outside. My stomach coiled whenever I smelled food that was about to be served to somebody else, knowing it wasn't for me.

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence.

People come back to places that send them away.

You see, hannibal said, I happily give wine to my friends, but a man who drinks my wine and then rejects my friendship is a thief.

All of the work dried up after that.... I was shunned. They didn't want to hear the other side.

Many readers will be inclined to dismiss my arguments and will do so too hastily. When rejecting an unpopular view, it is extraordinarily easy to be overly confident in the force of one's responses. This is partly because there is less felt need to justify one's views when one is defending an orthodoxy. It is also partly because counter-responses from those critical of this orthodoxy, given their rarity, are harder to anticipate.

It seems that I always am and always have been an outsider. I've never really fit in. I was always too religious for my rowdy friends—they thought I was unbelievably hung up—and too rowdy for my religious friends—they were always praying for me.