Quotes About Rejection

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

On the back of Sir Richard Frances Burton's compass he engraved an inscription from the Qur'an: Travel through the earth and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.

Sooner or later they all turn their backs. They all leave. That's gospel. I've been there. I've seen it. They all do.

I love you," she whispered, gazing up into his pale gray eyes. He smiled crookedly, for a moment looking at her with a dazzled air. He had, she realized sadly, no experience hearing those words. He didn't know how to react. "I figured as much." This time, she didn't hit him.

I would like to belong but I dont.

I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come back.

I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come back" (210)

You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes he is.

There's a kind of man that when he cant have what he wants he wont take the next best thing but the worst he can find.

He found Reese asleep in a wrecked car behind the cabins. Suttree shook him gently awake into a world he wanted no part of. The old man fought it.

She wanted to disappear. Well, that's not quite right. She wanted not to have ever been here in the first place.

The Magpie took off her glove and looked scornfully at him. Basta likes to use snakes to scare woman that reject his advances. It didn't work with Resa. How did it go exactly - didn't she finally put the snake outside your door, Basta?

die Wahrheit ... ist ein hässliches Mädchen. Man schaut ihr nicht gern ins Gesicht.«

The people who were least expected to worship the Christ-child come to do so, while those who should have been awaiting him are threatened by his arrival.

OUTCASTS! R-R-RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, YOU S-S-SSTUPID H-H-HUMANS!!!

THE SPELL OF LOVE DENIED

Wrong because Christ had died for them and they were now killing him again.

One of the most important lessons I've learned in life is this: Do not preemptively take no for an answer. Do not decide your request has been rejected before it officially has. As with so many other lessons that involve assertion, this one applies far more to women than men.

It was one thingfor a person who didn't really know me to act distant, but it was quite another for someone to get to know me and then back away.