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Quotes About Rejection

Classic romance dilemma: you always want the man you can't have, and you never want the man that wants you.
~ Kim Izzo
about how much she wanted to be married: all three of them thought her standards were set way too high and that, on far too many occasions, she had overlooked some of the kindest, caring, and most respectable men around. Men who had been very interested in Serena, yet Serena had still either turned them down the very
~ Kimberla Lawson Roby
Owing to a poorly defined sense of self, people with BPD rely on others for their feelings of worth and emotional caretaking. So fearful are they of feeling alone that they may act in desperate ways that quite frequently bring about the very abandonment and rejection they're trying to avoid.
~ Kimberlee Roth
Our nation was established on principles that deliberately and expressly rejected the forced state-sanctioned religiosity that was attempted by fundamentalists who put together the "Mayflower Compact.
~ Kimberly Blaker
I stored this information in my head in the bulging file titled "Things I Wished I Didn't Know." It included what it felt like to walk on a clubfoot for ten years, and what it sounded like to have your mother say she never wanted to see you again.
~ Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
And what would you have me say? (Lorelei) That you love me, too, would be nice. Especially given the fact that I look like a complete ass kneeling here in front of you while two hundred men watch. (Jack)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Not I, but rather the king you love so well. It appears he would see us marry. (Rowena) My hairy arse. (Stryder) That is much more information about your person, Lord Stryder, than I care to know. (Rowena)
~ Kinley MacGregor
Why does the Dragon hate Phantom so?" she asked as she washed her face while Christian placed a small trunk of personal items beside their bed. "Basically everyone hates Phantom, Adara. He was never one to go out of his way to make a friend." "Yet you befriended him. Why?" He shrugged. "No one deserves to be alone. He needed a friend, he just didn't know it.
~ Kinley MacGregor
But if detachment is really fear of failure and hence never putting oneself to the test, or if it's fear of being hurt, humiliated or rejected, then one is closing all doors to life, to the possibilities of happiness, pain, dejection, achievement and experience. Reincarnation may be on the cards for most of us but we live this particular life, whether it is maya or whatever else, only once. This is our only chance to engage it. Excess
~ Kiran Nagarkar
The definition of an actor - someone who loves rejection.
~ Kirk Douglas
You took my body and my soul, but you wanted no part of my truth.
~ Kirsten Beyer
She'd tried so hard to prove she was good enough. And now, with a few simple sentences, Harriett had explained it so plainly. Jo had been good enough all along. They'd made her feel like a failure, when the truth was, they just hadn't wanted her around. There was nothing she could have done.
~ Kirsten Miller
Most painful of all, she mourned the time she could have spent with her daughter. She'd tried so hard to prove she was good enough. And now, with a few simple sentences, Harriett had explained it so plainly. Jo had been good enough all along. They'd made her feel like a failure, when the truth was, they just hadn't wanted her around. There was nothing she could have done.
~ Kirsten Miller
We filled in the space but we were never chosen it did hurt but at least we helped them feel okay.We learnt to give love without any expectation it doesn't hurt that way.
~ Kobe
Whatever you say or do, nobody's going to recognize the Kingdom of Quintessential Castoffs as a sovereign nation.
~ Kobo Abe
The smell of poison and death clings to any stranger, and people have become allergic to outsiders without realizing it.
~ Kobo Abe
Conservatism and passive acceptance... They can't think for themselves. Anything that's too complicated sends their heads reeling. Makes me want to puke.
~ Koushun Takami
Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.
~ Kouta Hirano
It comes back to love, they decide. Love & the fear of loss, & even greater fear of opening up yourself in ways that would also leave you open to a bit of rejection & loss if it didn't quite work out the way you had been dreaming.
~ Kris Radish
most important keys to winning these battles is simply to recognize that these thoughts are not our own and to reject all ownership of them.
~ Kris Vallotton
Malone is surly, scary and ugly," I say. "So I'm gonna pass on him, if you don't mind." "I don't know," Chantal says. She looks past me. "What do you say, Malone? Want to go out with Maggie?
~ Kristan Higgins
It's not you. The stupidest line in the history of lines.
~ Kristan Higgins
No," Kelsey said as if it were the
~ Kristan Higgins
Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.
~ Kristin Hannah