Quotes About Rejection

But yet she listen'd -- 'tis enough -- Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.

She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someone. People always thought she was too wonderful to belong to them or that something too wonderful would hurt too much to lose. And that's why she liked him-- because he just thought she was crazy.

This drew frowns from Steve, still smarting from the rejection of his cappuccino. The menu stated clearly in small print that the Economy Dinner for one was not to be shared. Steve, I knew, took these issues seriously. He worked 18 hours a day, seven days a week, and consequently saw life as a grim struggle for existence. Oddly, I hardly work at all, yet share a similar philosophy.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Still, though, when he became the Lizard King he knew his presence made a statement. People shied away from him when they saw him coming. Conversations stopped as he passed by, like there was some kind of malevolent black cloud hanging over his head. And when he stared at others they tended to quickly look away. It used to bother him, but now he took a kind of perverse pride in it. He didn't want to make new friends, anyway. What was the point?

She demands more than she ever gives and rarely shows any gratitude. I hope you're prepared. The only thing she hates more than being told what to do is being told what she should not do.

His ass gave off a scent of taunting intimacy. I couldn't reject that intimacy, and it was there that I traveled, intoxicated, to the most sacred part of him, without asking or offering anything, without thinking. I tried to quiet my fascination with his ass. That's where my urge to become one with him overpowered me.

Deep work is at a severe disadvantage in a technopoly because it builds on values like quality, craftsmanship, and mastery that are decidedly old-fashioned and nontechnological. Even worse, to support deep work often requires the rejection of much of what is new and high-tech.

Without this patient willingness to reject shiny new pursuits, you'll derail your efforts before you acquire the capital you need.

I felt like I was stretching to convince the world that my work was interesting, yet no one cared.

Both Kreizler and I had seen all this before, but familiarity did not breed acceptance.

Because the secular culture didn't want a Lord, preaching quit saying, "Thus saith the Lord.

None of us can accept all what we may be offered in this life. Sometimes we must say no, even to love.

We do not thieve the peckers of men who've spurned us and squirrel them away in glass jars.

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

I've decided that it's possible to LOVE someone for entirely SELFLESS reasons, for all of their flaw and weaknesses, and still NOT succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not TRAGIC, unless you dwell forever in the PURSUIT of their elusive affections.

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.

People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So - no.'

Pygmalion made her; then she kicked him in the nuts, ran away, and developed a personality.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

Typecasting always involves a slight insult, and usually one that is easy to refute. But since it is the response itself that the typecaster seeks, the defense is silence, acting as if the words weren't even spoken.

Here is a list of the PINS: Alcohol and drug abuse; Addiction to media products; Aimlessness; Fascination with weapons and violence; Experience with guns; Access to guns; Sullen, Angry, Depressed (SAD); Seeking status and worth through violence; Threats (of violence or suicide); Chronic anger; Rejection/humiliation; Media provocation.

was death with women in high school," he said. "Absolutely the strike-out king. I was a little too geeky, a little too gangly, and much too manic.

First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate