Quotes About Rejection

sick of it whatever it's called sick of the names I dedicate every pore to what's here

fucking flattery, success, money. I just sit back and suck my thumb.

Hank had a stray-cat quality that made women want to take him in and nourish him with food and affection, but like most alcoholics, he would soon abuse that love, frustrate it, and ultimately alienate it

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

Nor do I," Anu said quietly. "But there is never so much love in our lives that we can afford to reject it when it is offered.

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.

Perhaps this world is not ready for what I have to say…

It would be much better for you to give up thinking of God and to create your own justice, since it is refused you.

I dreamt I had entered the body of a hog, that I could not easily get out again, and that I was wallowing in the filthiest slime. Was it a kind of reward? My dearest wish had been granted; I no longer belonged to mankind.

And if no one asked for her hand, how then could Carr give it?

This is a key task of late life—to recognize early self-concepts and rejected parts, begin to repair them, and cultivate a broader, deeper sense of identity.

Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in the wastebasket, in the morning, and open it to see what the hell I'd been up to; and occasionally it was something that needed only a very slight change to be brought off, which I'd missed the day before.

Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

But I've struggled, like every foster child I've ever met, between two opposing agonies: she didn't want me, and I'm the one who left. The guilt, still, is immeasurable.

It seemed to him that life's true tragedy was to lift up one's voice among the living and be met with indifference.

I wanted to have a friendship with Christine [Baranski], but she turned down so many invitations to visit my home that I finally said, 'Look, you'll just have to tell me when you'd like to come over.

In March Brian heard that Decca weren't interested. The chap he spoke to told him groups with guitars were on the way out and they didn't like the boys' sound.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you. Other times it's because they don't want to hear you.

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls' hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

He felt old and miserable, going through life trying to peddle a personality of which people would not even accept a free sample.

Son of a stadium full of bitches.

When you think something's out of reach, you back off and say you didn't want it anyway.