Quotes About Rejection

Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

I mean, Princess Margaret had me officially informed by the master of the household that she wouldn't speak to me until I changed my religion. That was not personal. We'd only met for five minutes. That was historical. She never spoke to me in 25 years. We were always very polite to one another, but we didn't speak.

Since birth, my mother made the decision at age 16 to pretend she never had me. She has never spoken to me. Even if present in the same room with other people and family, she pretends that I simply don't exist. She pretends I'm invisible.

I have spoken to many broadcasters about bringing poetry to television and they're usually not keen.

I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

In dating, if you say no, your lover goes on to the next person. In marriage, if you say no, the person stays.

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

Heiresses are never jilted.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

Why in God's name do you expect to be accepted everywhere? How is it the world couldn't get on with the holiest man that ever lived, and it can get on with you and me?

Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

But when I tried to meet her eye now, she pointedly looked away, and fixed her red and swollen eyes on the big stained-glass window above the slate. Since (a) it was dark outside and (b) the window depicted Saunt Grod and his research assistants being beaten with rubber hoses in the dungeons of some Praxic Age spy bureau and (c) Tulia had already spent something like a quarter of her life in this room, I reckoned that inspecting the window wasn't really the point.

I'd rather stub out cigarettes on my tongue than go shopping.

His baseline attitude toward other humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought.

No, it's not Pluto. Get over it.