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Quotes About Rejection

Oooom-yum?" Bumblebee inquired, reaching for it. "Eeee?" "No," Cricket said. "GROSS, Bumblebee!" "GWOSE!" Bumblebee cried, waking up an anaconda as thick as Sundew's tail in the next tree over.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I heard you weren't a SkyWing, Glory, but that doesn't bother me. SkyWings are overrated,
~ Tui T. Sutherland
We are NOT calling it magical death spit!!" -Glory
~ Tui T. Sutherland
She's no one's favorite dragonet, I might add.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
There's only one thing that's any good with a certain type of woman, you know,' went on Eddie. 'Ask her for what you want, ask her whether she means to give it to you, and if she doesn't, throw her out of the window.
~ Patrick Hamilton
What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess that's the problem.' I don't think normal is that great.' But so many people choose it,' I reply. I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.' Well, why do we choose the hard road?
~ Patrick Jones
The back of my hand to guilt.
~ Patrick O'Brian
The worst thing about love between human beings is that when you are prepared to love them they don't want it; when they do its you who can't bear the idea.
~ Patrick White
The rest of the world was there for her to take at any moment she wished it, but she always rejected it in favour of her own familiar little cosmos.
~ Paul Bowles
The telemarketers who called her up now seemed either desperate or resigned to the point of a mindless drone, until Judith, who had time on her hands and ice in her heart, engaged them in dark conversations that always got her removed from their lists.
~ Unknown
People call love sickness heartache, but that's not where you feel rejection. Your heart only responds to excitement and fear - racing, pounding, skipping beats. You feel rejection in the pit of your stomach. It's like the moment you realise you've eaten bad food, and you know that all you've got to look forward to is a night of twisted torment and twisted sheets.
~ Unknown
Christian Nice Girls, because they fear rejection, tend to get their feelings hurt when other people have good boundaries and say things like, "I'm busy right now. Let's look at next month.
~ Unknown
Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously declared; but in modern America a lot of people do believe that they're entitled to their own facts.
~ Paul Krugman
Rejected seed of a diseased pig-eater,' I began. 'Despised dropping from a dead vulture's crutch. Eater of sweeper's turds and feeder on after-birth. Fart in the holy silence of the universe and limp pudenda on the body of the false prophet.
~ Paul Scott
To be rejected—which I suppose is one of the easiest ways of making your mark, you have to come right out with something they see as directly and forcefully opposed to what they think they believe in. To be accepted you have to be seen and heard to appear to stand for what they think they believe in. To be neither one thing nor the other is probably unforgivable. But
~ Paul Scott
Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through love. We are always suffering because of someone who doesn't love us, or someone who has left us, or someone who won't leave us. If we are alone, it is because no one wants us...
~ Paulo Coelho
It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.
~ Paulo Coelho
She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature
~ Paulo Coelho
I don't see why I should bother to look for someone who never took the trouble to love me.
~ Paulo Coelho
People listen and accept because they have no option. The Super-class rules the world; their arguments are subtle, their voices soft, their smiles discreet, but their decisions are final. They know. They accept or reject. They have the power. And power doesn't negotiate with anyone, only with itself. However, all is not lost. In the world of fiction and in the real world, there is always a hero.
~ Paulo Coelho
Well I know I am ugly and cannot be loved—
~ Pearl S. Buck
The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her.
~ Pearl S. Buck
It's even difficult to hear that what we reject out there is what we reject in ourselves, and what we reject in ourselves is what we are going to reject out there.
~ Pema Chodron
This meditation is called nontheistic, which doesn't have anything to do with believing in God or not believing in God, but means that nobody but yourself can tell you what to accept and what to reject. The practice of meditation helps us to get to know this basic energy really well, with tremendous honesty and warmheartedness, and we begin to figure out for ourselves what is poison and what is medicin, which means something different for each of us.
~ Pema Chodron