Quotes About Rejection

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.

The pill's bittersweet chaser is not that they can't love you back the same way. It's that they won't. They won't open their minds to the possibility. They won't expand their expectations of romantic love past their own predetermined boundaries—gender, age, [insert innumerable other unfair, random reasons here].

I'd never thought a single sentence could turn me off so decisively from both making love and playing the piano, but there it was.

He asked me to be his girlfriend and asked me to Homecoming…" "Wow. That sucks. I hate it when hot, popular guys do that stuff to me. I mean, asking you to be his girlfriend? Sounds like he deserved to be kicked to the curb. Girl power.

I was ever ill-suited for this world and could not bend my nature to it.

If there be any further freedom than the one granted by excommunication, perhaps it is the freedom not to exist.

Lo erróneo puede ser rechazado como falso, pero también superado como incompleto. Lo diferente puede ser combatido como incompatible, pero también aceptado como complementario.

Ryan's parents, no less than Sam's, were of that portion of the post-war generation that rejected the responsibilities of tradition and embraced entitlement. Sometimes it seemed to him that he was the parent, that his mother and father were the children. Regardless of the consequences of their behavior and decisions, they would see no need for redemption. Giving them the chance to earn it would only offend them.

Anyway," he said, "if somebody doesn't belong in the world, there's no door they can throw him out. They can't take the world away from him and put him somewhere different. The worst thing they can do is kill him. That's all.

Therefore, she would have to open herself to all the experiences that her new life provided, including the awful possibility of rejection and severe disappointment. Without risk, there was no hope of gain.

Truths we don't want to hear always make the teller ugly to us.

If you evoked that frown, what you feared was his disapproval, and when you learned that you had disappointed him, you realized that you needed his approval no less than you needed air, water, and food.

I believed suddenly not merely in evil as a necessary antagonist in movies and books—bad guys and boogeymen—not merely in evil as the consequence of parental rejection or parental indulgence or social injustice, but in Evil as a presence alive in the world.

When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.

By the time I was six, it became clear that I was not adoptable.

All three are nihilists

so perhaps in our postmodern rejection of the past, we cast aside more wisdom than ignorance.

Only the human monster knew beauty and rejected it, knew truth and disdained it, knew peace and did not prefer it, unlike the tiger and the wolf who knew not.

the rejection hurt.

We withhold our communications to others, fearing that we are not worthy of love and happiness.

What upset her most was the cold-blooded way he'd dismissed her from his life. It seemed so easy for him, so...simple. She was gone for him, as if she meant nothing. That hurt, and it didn't stop hurting.

We hold on to our pain, our loss, our rejections, like a kid with a favorite toy. Why take the risk? Why get involved? It's costly to let go of all the garbage we carry, the pain we've nursed like a colicky baby. That's why we reject the very thing we want most. We're afraid it might lead to something more, something good, and that's what we find downright uncomfortable.

Most people felt either drawn to Ian or rejected by him, depending on how they interpreted his demeanour. He is described by Mike Kelly, a childhood acquaintance who lived nearby, as a person one would cross the road to avoid, merely because his eyes said: 'Stay Away'.

I'm sorry, Anna, but I…Anna, I just can't picture a baby at the end of all this. I'm sorry. I just cannot." His voice had risen, but now it was a whisper. "Especially not another man's baby…especially not that.