Quotes About Rejection

I grew to really love the exquisite humiliation of auditioning. When you audition for a role, everything is organized around reminding you that you do not matter. It's the best therapy I ever received.

We need no promise of a happy ending to justify our rejection of a world we feel to be wrong.

Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can't turn you away.

When you write screenplays that don't get made, you lose your sense of humor about the bad movies that do get made

With women, Ernie Holm had some experience at taking no for an answer.

Most dump kids are believers; maybe you have to believe in something when you see so many discarded things.

The older they got, the more they needed; and the less anyone wanted or loved them.

THINK OF HARDY AS A MAN WHO WAS ALMOST RELIGIOUS, AS A MAN WHO CAME SO CLOSE TO BELIEVING IN GOD THAT WHEN HE REJECTED GOD, HIS REJECTION MADE HIM FEROCIOUSLY BITTER.

Maybe she could've come back from her suspension and gone back to work at Transcept, as if nothing had happened. But she couldn't. Because something had happened. A lot of somethings. And it meant she could never return to that life, if she even wanted to. And she didn't.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

I've never really been wanted.

A man travelling on a train - like you or I - to Scotland, had two or two bad eggs in his pocket - and you know - no one would sit by him.

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint.

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

Alas, we think of ourselves as unique entities-minds unlike any others-and thus we often reject the lessons that the emotional experience of others has to teach us.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!