Quotes About Rejection

It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old. This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person and hung around in doorways, and she was afraid.

I go all around and try to tell them. And they laugh. I can't make them understand anything. No matter what I say I can't seem to make them see the truth.

If a person admires you a lot you despise him and you don't care-- and it is the person who doesn't notice you that are apt to admire.

There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that. Like what? Numbers that make you uncomfortable and don't relate to oranges.

Unlike many later atomists, and unlike his Stoic rivals, Epicurus rejected determinism not only in the physical realm but also in the realm of human agency.

I've seen the girls he's been with, Kendra. Guys like him don't pay attention to me. I'm always the sidekick, the supporting cast. I am in over my head here. I'm going back to bed and staying there for the weekend.

I can only assume that there's only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that's not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.

How can a place be a home if no one wants you there? This is not a home.

She felt disgusting and used and like she could never trust anyone ever again, and the last thing she wanted was food.

She just didn't want to cry, anything but show this insensitive little shit how much he'd hurt her.

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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.

So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman

One of the most wonderful, and the most appalling, things about Eric loving me was that he didn't give a shit about anyone else.

And that's your fantasy? That I come into your house naked and have sex with you? After that, you tell me that you have sent Eric on his way, that you want to be mine forever, and that to share my life you will permit me to make you a vampire like me. The silence now was thick, and the fun had drained out of the fantasy. Then Bill added, You know what I'd say when you told me this? I'd tell you I would never do such a thing. Because I love you.

No one would ever like him; he would never be accused of being unfair.

the pain in my middle was the unmistakable pain of rejection. I knew the feeling so well, it was like a second skin. I sure hated to crawl back inside it.

I was quite small as a lad compared to everyone else so I didn't stand a chance at Southampton. They told me one day that they weren't interested so I moved on. I just went away and enjoyed my football.

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

If you've been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.

I gave everything I ever wrote to Johnny Cash. I think he said later in some interview that he would take them home and throw them in the lake with all the other demos. I'm sure he got a million of them.