Quotes About Rejection

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

Nine months after that singular encounter, I arrived. From the moment I could make sense of it, I knew I was unwanted.

Here is the confusing part: James felt most comfortable when the world was in line with his worldview. Being rejected or treated poorly validated this view. The most destabilizing thing for anyone is to have their core beliefs challenged. As psychologist Virginia Satir puts it, we feel better with the certainty of misery than the misery of uncertainty. Good or bad, we are attracted to things that are familiar.

The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition

The exit in a blaze of glory is bullshit.

The most extreme agony is to feel that one has been utterly forsaken.

If only we could recall how we felt when we were small, or could imagine how utterly defeated a young child feels when his play companions or older siblings temporarily reject him or can obviously do things better than he can, or when adults—worst of all, his parents—seem to make fun of him or belittle him, then we would know why the child often feels like an outcast:

The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.

Now stop your dancing; you wouldn't come out and dance when I played to you.

It's so much easier to have a crush on someone who you know isn't going to respond-it makes it nice and safe and you never have to humiliate yourself by getting knocked back.

There is and always has been the Church, and various heresies proceeding from a rejection of some of the Church's doctrines by men who still desire to retain the rest of her teaching and morals.

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

rejection is usually God's protection.

Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.

I think drink is ugly, and therefore I have nothing to do with it.

To hell with your courts, I know what justice is.

Punctuality can go to the devil.

If it's the two men in suits with Bibles then he slams it shut to make sure not even one of their words enters into the hall.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

These are bad times for people who like to sit outside the library at dawn on a rainy morning and get ripped to the tits on crank and powerful music.

Yeah, I guess I am," said one. "But you're looking at one loser who's going to make a hell of a scene on the way out.

McGovern is the only major candidate—including Lindsay and Muskie—who invariably gives a straight answer when people raise these questions. He lines out the painful truth, and his reward has been just about the same as that of any other politician who insists on telling the truth: He is mocked, vilified, ignored, and abandoned as a hopeless loser by even his good old buddies like Harold Hughes. On

I can't recommend the food at that place, because they wouldn't let me eat.