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Quotes About Rejection

But it increased the pain tenfold to wonder if he did still retain some of his love for her. It seemed so cruel that they now lived close to each other, meeting with fair frequency, and both free, yet that they could never mean anything to each other.
~ Mary Balogh
There is a terrible pain,' she said softly, 'about being abandoned by someone who loves someone else more than you. A pain and an emptiness and a determination never again to give anyone that power.
~ Mary Balogh
Remove your hands from me, my lord, she said calmly. I have nothing to say to you, now or ever. I had never thought to hate anyone. But I believe I do hate you.
~ Mary Balogh
Dünyadaki hüznün yar?s? seni istemeyen birini istemektir
~ Mary Doria Russell
She holds every dress briefly by its shoulders like it's a schoolkid she's checking out for smudges before church. Then one by one they get flung away from her and into the fire.
~ Mary Karr
i only know how to exist when i'm wanted.
~ Mary Lambert
girls like us are hardly ever wanted, you know we're used up. and sad. and drunk. and perpetually waiting by the phone for someone to pick up and say "you did good." well, you did good
~ Mary Lambert
Writers have to be tenacious to the point of being pathological. Rejection and criticism is assured.
~ Mary Lawrence
LONELINESS I too have known loneliness. I too have known what it is to feel misunderstood, rejected, and suddenly not at all beautiful. Oh, mother earth, your comfort is great, your arms never withhold. It has saved my life to know this. Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the morning. Oh, motions of tenderness!
~ Mary Oliver
I too have known loneliness. I too have known what it is to feel misunderstood, rejected, and suddenly not at all beautiful. Oh, mother earth, your comfort is great, your arms never withhold. It has saved my life to know this. Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the morning. Oh, motions of tenderness!
~ Mary Oliver
Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claimed me, so many heavy coats. I didn't choose them, I don't fault them, but it took time to reject them. Now in the spring I kneel, I put my face into the packets of violets, the dampness, the freshness, the sense of ever-ness.
~ Mary Oliver
You will hear no a lot. It's about not giving up and having the absurd belief that someone, somewhere will say yes. I don't go away easily.
~ Mary Roach
Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein
~ Mary Shelley
I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.
~ Mary Shelley
Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
~ Mary Shelley
All men hate the wretched.
~ Mary Shelley
When I looked around, I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?
~ Mary Shelley
God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred.
~ Mary Shelley
Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.
~ Mary Shelley
Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone and irrevocably excluded.
~ Mary Shelley
Shall I not then hate them who abhor me?
~ Mary Shelley
Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone? You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing?
~ Mary Shelley
For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were for ever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.
~ Mary Shelley
I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on
~ Mary Shelley