Quotes About Rejection

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

I hear you knocking but I can't let you in. The last time almost killed me. Love, My heart

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!

What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.

In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren't. Surround yourself with positive people and environments.

When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.

I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

With due respect, Truck-off.

The emptiness that fills in when once-the-beloved says, "Who are you?

To find oneself jilted is a blow to one's pride. One must do one's best to forget it and if one doesn't succeed at least one must pretend to.

Rejection allowed me to appreciate the beauty of acceptance.

As writers, we should remind ourselves, and each other, that Jane Austen and JK Rowling got rejected by publishers, too.

Those without passion are often passed and shunned.

Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

There, stacked high on his desk, was a tower of paper. Thick slabs of manuscript. Slush. Unsolicited, unagented, unloved. This was where dreams came to die. Book proposals, cover letters, entire manuscripts – they gathered like so much detritus on the desks of publishers everywhere.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

No longer an American, Benedict Arnold was never accepted as an Englishman, either.

He had decided, almost hysterically it seems from the tone of this desperate letter to Washington, to turn his back on the people who had so rejected and wounded him, and make his peace with the British.

Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.