Quotes About Rejection

The more she talked that way, the worse I felt. She highlighted my awkwardness, my lack of knowledge about the right things to say and do. I was a blundering adolescent in her eyes, and she was trying to let me down easy.

Antes, riam de mim, desprezando-me por minha ignorância e estupidez; agora, eles me odiavam por meu conhecimento e compreensão.

O problema real é que não há lugar pra ninguém em lugar algum

"The penalty of success is to be bored by the attention of people who formerly snubbed you."

However much you wanted someone to want you, there was nothing you could do to make it happen. Whatever you did for them, whatever you gave them, whatever you let them take, it could never be enough. Never enough to be sure. Never enough to satisfy them. Never enough to stop them walking away. Never enough to make them love you.

I am thankful to all who said no to me. It is because of them that I'm doing it myself.

The worst feeling is to be ignored once, then twice, then again and again by someone you consider precious.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

I recognize no empire of this present age.

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

There's so many kids out there and it's such a cut-throat world. I've seen a lot of my mates, you know, who are better players than me at a certain age, and they're not in football now.

I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

I'm the only one sitting alone, under the glowing neon sign which reads, "Complete and Total Loser, Not Quite Sane. Stay Away. Do Not Feed.

One of the most amazing things Jesus said is that at the judgment seat, preachers are going to say 'I cast out devils, and Jesus will say 'I never knew you.

In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien to our being, this even though we all suffer, and frequently. Yet we reject suffering as a basic human truth, while greeting joy as integral to our very substance.

It is the grand misfortune of my life that nobody will let me alone.

I have degraded myself by ever thinking of him as my husband.