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Quotes About Rejection

No. Thank you she said in a voice that said he could go to hell and take his jacket with him.
~ Tara Janzen
Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.
~ Tariq Ramadan
What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.
~ Ted Dekker
He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.
~ Ted Dekker
But aren't lovers always tempted to find another? You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject him who first loved you and follow after the intoxicating scents.
~ Ted Dekker
It was real. Not your actual father, no, but the one who tells you that you're not good enough. That you don't belong. The one we all secretly fear when the lights are off. The one that religion has turned into a god made in their own image, capable of hatred.
~ Ted Dekker
You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject Him who first loved you and follow after intoxicating sense. Evil is a jealous lover who will try to destroy what it cannot posses.
~ Ted Dekker
He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.
~ Ted Hughes
Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.
~ Tennessee Williams
As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to me, couldn't you, Jimmy?
~ Tennessee Williams
You have always been alone, always self-centered and fearful of opening yourself to other persons, for to do so is to risk rejection and pain. But it is a risk we are born to take, we humans. We cannot live alone, cannot find happiness or peace alone, cannot love alone. The person alone must always be fleeing, always searching. He flees from the loneliness without end. He searches, whether he will or not, for another who will fill his emptiness.
~ Julian May
Kindly and firmly, she refused to sleep with me. Not even a charity fuck.
~ Julian May
He took a moment to get over the shock, and to remind himself that this had surely been difficult for her and she was probably bracing herself for a rejection. At least he hoped she was. If she wasn't, she needed to do that straight away, because it was coming. God damn right it was coming.
~ Julianne MacLean
I told her that I could not marry her, because…because I was in love with you." For a long time Madeline sat in her chair, immobile, listening only to the sound of her blood pounding in her ears. She stared blankly at Adam. "You can't be." He bowed his head. "You can't possibly love me. I'm nothing." "You're not nothing. You're everything.
~ Julianne MacLean
How will you be remembered? As a loner and a loser.
~ Julie Anne Peters
You would never understand, Kim. You think I'm normal; you wish I was.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Flush me down the toilet. Human waste.
~ Julie Anne Peters
As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me." "So when's the wedding?" Ramsey asked.
~ Julie Garwood
La verité est triste, comme vous le savez. Elle déçoit parce qu'elle restreint. Elle tient dans un poing fermé, puis dans le geste d'une main qui se délace et rejette. Elle est pauvre, elle démeuble et démunit.
~ Julien Gracq
En suma, desde pequeño, mi relación con las palabras, con la escritura, no se diferencia de mi relación con el mundo en general. Yo parezco haber nacido para no aceptar las cosas tal como me son dadas.
~ Julio Cortazar
La besaron tanto entre Inés y su madre que le quedó la cara como caminada, blanda y oliendo a rouge y polvo rachel de Coty, húmeda alrededor de la boca, un asco que el viento le sacó de un manotazo.
~ Julio Cortazar
Por qué me hacés sufrir, bobo? Ya sé que estás cansado, que no me querés más. Nunca me quisiste, era otra cosa, una manera de soñar. Andate, Horacio, no tenés por qué quedarte. A mí ya me ha pasado tantas veces...
~ Julio Cortazar
Así andaban, Punch and Judy, atrayéndose y rechazándose como hace falta si no se quiere que el amor termine en cromo o en romanza sin palabras. Pero el amor, esa palabra...
~ Julio Cortazar