Quotes About Rejection

I felt like I'd just been picked last for the world's biggest game of kickball.

Year after year, my eyes would scan the lunchroom like a T-1000, searching for a clique that might accept me.

I tried my best to fit in. Year after year, my eyes would scan the lunchroom like a T-1000, searching for a clique that might accept me. But even the other outcasts wanted nothing to do with me. I was too weird, even for the weirdos. And girls? Talking to girls was out of the question. To me, they were like some exotic alien species, both beautiful and terrifying. Whenever I got near one of them, I invariably broke out in a cold sweat and lost the ability to speak in complete sentences.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

Yo había tenido muchos enamoramientos. Unos fueron correspondidos, y otros—tal vez los más—no lo fueron. Estos últimos han predominado más en mi poesía, no sólo por más numerosos sino sobre todo porque inspira mucho más el amor desdichado que el amor feliz; y esto ha sido así en la poesía mundial.

Ana had experienced reactions like Ramon's in the mirrored salons of Sevilla society, in the waxed halls of the Convento de las Buenas Madres, on the streets of Cadiz and San Juan. It was a look that said, "I see you, but I deign not to speak to you." It said, "I see you but I do not share the high opinion you have of yourself." It said, "I see you but you're not who I want to see." It said, "To me, you don't exist.

Me, when it comes to religion, I have no God. When I'm cool, I don't need anyone, and when I'm feeling shitty and this big empty hole opens up inside me, I just know there's never been a god that could fill it and there never will be.

God acts positively toward his people. God is not indifferent. He is not rejecting. He is not ambivalent or dilatory. He does not act arbitrarily, in fits and starts. He is not stingy, providing only for bare survival.

Certainly you may quit if you wish. You may say no to God. It's a free faith. You may choose the crooked way. He will not keep you against your will. But it is not the kind of thing you fall into by chance or slip into by ignorance. Defection requires a deliberate, sustained and determined act of rejection.

But you never got hungry for me. You continued to ignore me." GOD'S Decree. 7-8

But you never got thirsty for me. You ignored me." GOD'S Decree. 9

It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

Bartleby's paradox: acceptance through refusal.

She was poisoned, but the reason she was crying was that her husband didn't want her anymore.

You can write a song for someone, and then their mom doesn't like it, and then it doesn't get released. It could be the best song that you've ever written. I hated that, because I didn't have any control.

I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

Every player, when you get released, you feel like you still have a lot to offer. And that team is telling you, 'No, you don't have a lot to offer, so we're moving on.'

I was on 'SmackDown' TV when I was 24. I was released when I was 27 and came back at 29.

I realised I was a 'star' when my first film Dil Deke Dekho was released after being rejected before. It was a very big thing for me.

I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me.

Everyone has the right to practice their religious beliefs in private but expect that people might publicly reject said beliefs.

Already at the time of Israel's birth, Ben-Gurion extended his hand in peace to the Arab nations. His hand was rejected, but it remains extended.

I remember when we did 'Shaun of the Dead,' and when we were trying to get it off the ground in 2001 before we actually made it, a lot of people just didn't want to know.

I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.