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Quotes About Rejection

And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.
~ Kristin Cashore, Fire
I was even a little glad that if it wasn't going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.
~ Lauren DeStefano, Fever
We always get rejections, whether it's in love or anything in life. And then negativity tends to creep in. But hopefully we are honest towards the people around us so that we can conquer it.
~ Aksel Hennie
I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.
~ Andrew Davies
Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.
~ Judith Viorst
It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.
~ Adrian Tan
If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.
~ Ann Brashares
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
~ Ben Jonson
There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.
~ Bethany Cosentino
I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back.
~ Cammie McGovern
I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
Love hurts." Oh, shut UP!" - pg 123
~ James Patterson
Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.
~ Lou Reed
Yet if I told you you are born of God-that you are pure Gods and Goddesses at birth-pure love-you would reject me.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
You can't make me love you.
~ Neil Gaiman
Love will not be spurred to what it loathes
~ William Shakespeare
You're in love? Out Out of love? I love someone. She doesn't love me.
~ William Shakespeare
I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.
~ George Farquhar
Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.
~ George Herbert
They will not love me, you say? When have they ever loved me? How can I lose something I have never owned? - Stannis
~ George R. R. Martin
Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'
~ Homer
The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again.
~ Honore de Balzac
How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.
~ Hortense Calisher