Quotes About Rejection

He had tried so hard so many times, and she had always rejected him. He would not give her another chance, she knew. -Sky

I loved her. And she didn't love me back. She wanted to break up with me. She tried to run. I couldn't let her leave. I grabbed her, and held her down, and she screamed, and she wouldn't stop screaming, and I had to make her quiet so she would listen. I loved her so much, and she wouldn't listen.

Their parents may fill the children's hours with therapeutic equipment, tutors, drivers, therapists, psychiatrists, and special schools, while what a child wants and needs most desperately is a friend. Often a child longs for a friend despite rejecting everyone who reaches out. Such a child may be convinced to come out of hiding if the proffered playmate is a dog

Because if anything can make death feel like a truly desirable alternative, it's getting dumped.

He looked up with sharp incisive eyes. What do we need a metaphysician for? Don't tell me some rejected author has put a curse on us. Not today, Fletcher said.

Love and closeness—involvement with people—are the greatest risks a man or woman can take. They require honesty, spontaneity, vulnerability, trust, responsibility, self-acceptance, and acceptance of others. Love brings joy and warmth, but it also requires us to be willing to occasionally feel hurt and rejection.

Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.

I was not. I was. I am not. I care not.

Fuchsia, for whom the fine art of procedure held less lure, found in old Barquentine a creature to hide from and to hate – not for any specific reason, but with the hatred of the young for the authority vested in age.

In every potential sponsor's eyes, I was a nobody. And soon I had notched up more rejection letters than is healthy for any one man to receive.

The Royal Marines description of me as "happy-go-lucky" is good for many things, but somehow it doesn't wash with university applications. And with my mediocre A level results I was getting a hefty number of rejections winging my way. A lot of my good friends were heading to Bristol University. But I had as much change of getting in there with my ACDC grades as Deborah Maldives had of winning a beauty pageant.

I wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn't hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently do it to me? Even my parents treat me like I'm stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.

Since true love sheds light on those aspects of ourselves we may wish to deny or hide, enabling us to see ourselves clearly and without shame, it is not surprising that so many individuals who say they want to know love turn away when such love beckons.

Women need to know that they can reject the powerful's definition of their reality… Many poor and exploited women, especially non-white women, would have been unable to develop positive self-concepts if they had not exercised their power to reject the powerful's definition of their reality.

Class warfare is an artificial division created for political advantage, and it should be rejected outright

Thy worst. I fart at thee.

The upside potential was so high—you could get a good payday with just one thirty-two-bar hit song—and the barrier to entry so low. Anyone could offer his wares—that is, anyone who could handle the indignity of knocking on door after door and being summarily rejected time and again.

Bond selection is primarily a negative art. It is a process of exclusion and rejection, rather than of search and acceptance.

I'm not his man, Father. I'm Uhtred of Bebbanburg, and the lords of Bebbanburg don't marry pious maggotfaced bitches of low birth.

Verzweifelt hatte er sie gefragt, wie sie sich so sicher sein konnte, dass sie ihn nicht liebte. Ihre Worte darauf hatten ihm das Herz aus dem Leib geschnitten. »Weil ich dich nie vermisst habe, nachdem du gegangen warst.«

Verzweifelt hatte er sie gefragt, wie sie sich so sicher sein konnte, dass sie ihn nicht liebte. Ihre Worte darauf hatten ihm das Herz aus dem Leib geschnitten. ?Weil ich dich nie vermisst habe, nachdem du gegangen warst.?

In spite of the fact that she pushed me away again and again, and again and again I crawled to her.

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy.

As against solipsism it is to be said, in the first place, that it is psychologically impossible to believe, and is rejected in fact even by those who mean to accept it. I once received a letter from an eminent logician, Mrs. Christine Ladd-Franklin, saying that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that there were no others. Coming from a logician and a solipsist, her surprise surprised me.