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Quotes About Rejection

He who is abandoned is an abandoner.
~ Walter Isaacson
Twiggy being made. More than half were rejected. Jobs erupted. With his face flushed, he began shouting and sputtering about firing everyone who worked there. Bob Belleville, the head of the Mac engineering team, gently
~ Walter Isaacson
The best thing ever to happen to Steve is when we fired him, told him to get lost
~ Walter Isaacson
Even as my body rotted and festered under the unblinking eyes of Clark Heinemann, the thoughts I had at death survived. One thousand unpublished stories, 26,473 rejection letters, and all those editorial twits that never gave me a break. The only thing left of me was a raging emotion at every publisher of every insignificant quarterly—but most of all, Clark Heinemann.
~ Walter Mosley
You want to go out to dinner sometime? Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry, infected with seven unknown diseases, gay, pregnant with lizards and clinically dead.
~ Warren Ellis
Fuck you . . . you fucking body-dysmorphia porn-addict trust-fund-baby compulsive-masturbation motherfucker.
~ Warren Ellis
Spider Jerusalem: You want to go out to dinner sometime? Hannah Enkidu: Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry,infected with seven unknown diseases, gay, pregnant with lizards and clinically dead.
~ Warren Ellis
Fear of the unknown. They are afraid of new ideas. They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on… if something is new, I reject it immediately because it's frightening to me. What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about yet refuse to investigate.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Words can't fix my life. Words can't give me a family. Words can't do jack. You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don't know squat.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Christians do not stand isolated, each holding his own creed. They constitute one body, having one common creed. Rejecting that creed, or any of its parts, is the rejection of the fellowship of Christians, incompatible with the communion of saints, ormmembership in the body of Christ. In other words, Protestants admit that there is a common faith of the Church, which no man is at liberty to reject, and which no man can reject and be a Christian.
~ Charles Hodge
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
~ Charles M. Schulz
I'm dying and all I hear are insults!
~ Charles M. Schulz
I'm depressed! I'm completely depressed! I am firmly convinced that there is no one in this world who really likes me!" "So what else is new?
~ Charles M. Schulz
Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Nobody likes me!" "I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!" "I hate myself for being so unreasonable!
~ Charles M. Schulz
There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.
~ Charles M. Schulz
I've always been criticized, right from the beginning! Right from the very first day I was born... They said I wasn't right for the part!
~ Charles M. Schulz
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
~ Charles M. Schulz
I'm nobody I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine And a straight razor ...if you get too close to me
~ Charles Manson
I have ate out of your garbage cans to stay out of jail. I have wore your second-hand clothes…I have done my best to get along in your world and now you want to kill me, and I look at you, and then I say to myself, You want to kill me? Ha! I'm already dead, have been all my life. I've spent twenty-three years in tombs that you built.
~ Charles Manson
I'm Jesus Christ, whether you want to accept it or not, I don't care.
~ Charles Manson
Since that moment, I'd bought into the idea that isolation would ease my pain and indifference was the remedy for rejection. Clarity was quick in coming. Isolation is a prison and indifference is a lie. Neither work.
~ Charles Martin
You can choose that if you want, or you can realize that we are all just broken, and sometimes no matter how hard we try and no matter what we do, people just don't love us back.' He
~ Charles Martin