Quotes About Rejection

Ludlow stayed in his room and would not see his eldest son. He sent Pet down into the parlor carrying his slate saying he could not talk to Alfred as long as he represented the U.S. government and its base practices.

Seek, and you shall be disappointed. Knock, and the door shall be slammed in your face.

Gwen: It's not going to work. Paul: Pardon me? Gwen: Cinderella's not going to sleep with you because you're taking the ugly stepsister to the ball. She'll still make you wait.

if someone "chose" you, what does that tell you? Doesn't it tell you that you were available to be "chosen"? Doesn't it tell you, in the end, that there are only two people in the world? The one who "chose" you? And the other who didn't?

The English social anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, in his 1965 Death, Grief, and Mourning, had described this rejection of public mourning as a result of the increasing pressure of a new "ethical duty to enjoy oneself," a novel "imperative to do nothing which might diminish the enjoyment of others.

When my father was told that I had been rejected from Stanford, he shrugged and offered me a drink.

Oh, muerte cruel! ¿Por qué vienes a quien no te quiere y rehuyes a los que te desean?

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.

Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.

i don't need you. i never needed you. well, i fucking needed you!

Go fuck yourself Judge. Motion denied. answers the judge dryly.

This isn't a lie, actually. I don't care why Edward left. All I really want to know is why I wasn't enough to make him stay.

What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

It's hypocritical to expect a job based on a curriculum built out of companies that for whatever reason rejected you.

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.

Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like sports stars, you're in it during your better years, and then you're out looking for work.

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

Next time she wants to talk to you tell her your too busy trying to get that damn knife out of your back.

Stop rejecting new relationships just because old ones didn't work out. Next thing you know you rejected your Soul Mate that God made for you by mistake!

When they see you're doing better without them, that's when they want you back.

Back then you didn't want me now I'm hot you all on me

Its crazy how you think you actually meant something to someone and then they just turn around and prove you wrong.