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Quotes About Rejection

Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back: Tells Harry that the King doth offer him Katherine his daughter; and with her to dowry some petty and unprofitable dukedoms: The offer likes not;
~ William Shakespeare
No, for then we should be colliers.
~ William Shakespeare
O, she tore the letter into a thousand half-pence; railed at herself, that she should be so immodest to write to one that she knew would flout her. 'I measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I love him, I should.
~ William Shakespeare
Out! A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o' door: A most intelligencing bawd!
~ William Shakespeare
O, that a lady of one man refus'd, Should of another therefore be abus'd!
~ William Shakespeare
My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
In these lands you're a name to avoid, you're bound for defeat, you're a sign pointing out those who must be destroyed.   At
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal.
~ Unknown
where was she sleeping? Sleeping? As soon as I asked myself that, I became someone walking toward her in the night, down the hallway, barefoot, in just my shirt and pants, the tiny, just-a-tad twirl-up of her lip, slippery and reptilian, together with my cold and disagreeable rejection and estrangement from those I had left behind in Warsaw, drove me coldly toward her swinish lust which, somewhere here, in this sleeping house . . .Where was she sleeping?
~ Witold Gombrowicz
Truth will only make you unpopular.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
~ Woody Allen
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.
~ Woody Allen
I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want
~ Woody Allen
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
~ Woody Allen
was also writing of the love-hate relationship the public has with its heroes or celebrities. One moment they want your autograph, the next they're ready to shoot you. Some
~ Woody Allen
A world I will never feel comfortable in, never understand, and never approve of or forgive.
~ Woody Allen
I think what it boils down to, really, is that I hate reality
~ Woody Allen
Sin el amor, soy otra vez aquel inadaptado al que le da lo mismo que le llamen rufián, desvergonzado, vándalo, vago, bueno para nada.
~ Xavier Velasco
Al principio trataba de jugar con los otros, pero uno acepta cierto número de rechazos, hasta que se convierte en un solitario arrogante, de modo que parezca que se alejó primero.
~ Xavier Velasco
Weather today is an increasing trend toward denial.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven help the one you choose.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Getawayfrommeyoumiserablelittlecreep.
~ Cinda Williams Chima