Quotes About Rejection

Some people aren't afraid of commitment, they're actually afraid of committing to someone who won't commit to them.

When you give your all to another person and he throws it in your face, you stop short and wonder why.

Many daughters live out their lives avoiding or abiding or arguing with their mothers-burying the long-ago injury or insult or childhood deprivation under a blanket of forgetfulness-and not confronting it head-on. It's humiliating to remember the ways in which one demeaned oneself in order to prevent being in a mother's bad graces, the willingness to do anything in order to not be rejected, when rejection felt like death.

But many more daughters of distant fathers are unable to reach orgasm, or achieve it with consistency with any man. Indeed these daughters have the most trouble in bed: for them, affection and arousal are synonymous with rejection.

Don't you see that Americans need the anti-American? While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also better to be hated than ignored.

My...principles in talking to a woman: do not ask permission; do not say hello; ...do not let her speak first...give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me...statements, not questions, were less likely to lead to no.

These displaced persons are mostly unwanted where they fled from; unwanted where they are, in refugee camps; and unwanted where they want to go.

I cannot be the only one who believes that if others just saw who I really was, then I would be understood and, perhaps, loved. But what would happen if one took off the mask and the other saw one not with love but with horror, disgust, anger? What if the self that one exposes is as unpleasing to others as the mask, or even worse?

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

There's a reason why saints are martyred. Nobody can stand them.

Dying in a battle is much better then living after being rejected on love, because one time death is much better then dying every day"

For the beggar, everything is always out of fashion.

Loving someone that does not love you is like shaking the tree that bears no fruit.

No doesn't always mean no; sometimes it means not right now.

When a man is not wanted in the village, he is always accused of raising dust even when he falls in a pool of water.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

As for those who reject the very idea that God will punish people with natural and "man-made" disasters, and kill thousands of people in the process, their problem is that they do not believe the Scripture at all,

The prophets and apostles understood religious diversity, but they rejected it.

There is no true Christian faith, no true commitment to Christ, without a rejection of religious diversity.

But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. (Romans 2:8)

If you are different from the rest of the flock, they bite you

What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and disagreeable man, somebody who has no position in society and never will have. Very well, even if that were true, I should want to show by my work what there is in the heart of such an eccentric man, of such a nobody.

What I am in the eyes of most people — a nonetity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and never will have, in short, the lowest of the low.

So I have a horror of success.