Quotes About Rejection

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

I want Arsenal to want me. If they didn't want me, it would hurt.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.

Today, talent needs the kind of luck that favors the incompetent; in fact, if a skilled man rejects the vile arrangements that bring success to rampant mediocrity, he will never get on at all.

I used to want to know everything, to be learned; and one thing I did learn thoroughly — I knew that I was not wanted here on earth.

Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and fear persist. And persist. And persist. She may alternate between wanting to protect her mother and resenting her, an advance-and-retreat dance of identification and rejection than can span years.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Of such rejected pieces of ourselves are our devils made.

Is this every kid's worst fear - that his mother and father don't love him? It was mine. (239)

So fuck off to fuck-off land and leave me alone.

In the course of the year I spent trying to raise money, I spoke to 242 people, and 217 of them said "no.

Failing to use our life opportunities wisely and lovingly is a rejection of God.

The other alternative in the nonresistance pattern is to reduce contact with the enemy to a minimum. It is the attitude of cultural isolation in the midst of a rejected culture. Cunning the mood may be—one of bitterness and hatred, but also one of deep, calculating fear. To take up active resistance would be foolhardy, for a thousand reasons. The only way out is to keep one's resentment under rigid control and censorship.

Racism is racism–and there is no room in America for racism of any color. And we must reject calls for racism, whether they come from a throat that is white or one that is black.

All the hipsters with cars, clothes, and money had rejected the family relationship that I valued so highly.

I said no thank you a dozen times, and fuck off once.

And until that day comes every true man's place/ is to reject all else and be with the lowest,/ the poorest - in the bottom of that deepest of wells/ in which alone is truth; in which is truth only - truth that should shine like the sun,/ with a monopoly of movement, and a sound like talking to God.

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The dildo is long and elegant, a classic old school moon-rocket, complete with four stabilising fins at the bottom. Each fin controls a different haptic field. A silver pussy-rocket printed to the dimensions of her vagina and vulva. Not a penis. Never a penis. Ariel Corta has never allowed a penis inside her.

There was a ring at the door. He did not answer. They would go away, and he would be alone again with his grief, his impotent anger, and his undusted possessions.

Heart lesson #4: the unrequited heart. You can't make anyone love you back.

To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.

Él descarta una colcha por temor a los bichos.

my childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.