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Quotes About Rejection

You didn't want to be my friend in elementary school. You didn't want to be my friend in junior high school. And you certainly weren't my friend in high school. Why on Earth do you want to be my Facebook friend today?
~ Unknown
You spend your whole life trying to fit in, and when you finally do, you realize that you are surrounded by the very people who held you down.
~ Unknown
You threw me to the crows, but i turns out I prefer them to you.
~ Madeline Miller
Tu m'as jeté en pâture aux corbeaux, mais il se trouve que je les préfère à toi.
~ Madeline Miller
Distaste ran over her face. Her eyes were not like a human's; they were black to their center and flecked with gold. I could not bring myself to meet them.
~ Madeline Miller
Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.
~ Unknown
You shall not look at me, she wants to say, you shall not see into me. I will not be yours. How dare you assess me and find me lacking?
~ Maggie O'Farrell
How can they not have invited him to this meeting? He used to have influence – he used to rule over them all. He used to be someone.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Esme looks up, sees the watch in Iris's outstretched hand and shakes her head. She holds up the blue check material and Iris sees that it is a dress, a woollen dress, that it's crumpled and two of the buttons are missing, torn out from the fabric. Esme is shaking it, as if something might be caught in its folds, then casts it aside.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
and she picked up the glass from the table and she threw it to the floor, smash. I sat tight on the chair. She stamped her foot, like Rumpelstiltskin, and shouted, I will not go, I will not, you can't make me, I hate him, I despise him.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
viz., that man should not rashly engage in speculation with false conceptions, and when he is in doubt about anything, or unable to find a proof for the object of his inquiry, he must not at once abandon, reject and deny it; he must modestly keep back,
~ Maimonides
All I have to do is say the word and no record label will ever touch Bad Luck. You'll be out of business faster than the fat one from N'Sync.
~ Unknown
I don't. If it mattered to me even one bit, I wouldn't be here with you, Nakano-san!
~ Unknown
Feel free to bugger off and die at any time.' Dan scowled.
~ Malorie Blackman
Being in and being accepted are two different things.
~ Malorie Blackman
Sod off and die, Dante,
~ Malorie Blackman
I don't want to be here. I don't want to be fixed up with another one of your ideas of the perfect man. Contrary to popular belief, we all don't want to get fucked by the first thing that shows any interest in us. Besides, testosterone-driven sex machines with little to no brains do not appeal to me!
~ Mandy M. Roth
Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.
~ Marc Maron
I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to hurt her, to force her to keep some memory of me. I thought her so beautiful that I should have liked to be able to retrace my steps so as to shake my fist at her and shout, "I think you're hideous, grotesque; how I loathe you!"_
~ Marcel Proust
In a recluse, the most irrevocable, lifelong rejection of the world often has as its basis an uncontrolled passion for the crowd, of such force that, finding when he does go out that he cannot win the admiration of a concierge, passers-by or even the coachman halted at the corner, he prefers to spend his life out of their sight, and gives up all activities which would make it necessary for him to leave the house.
~ Marcel Proust
In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as its primary cause a disordered love of the crowd, which so far overruled every other feeling that, not being able to win, when he goes out, the admiration of his hall-porter, of the passers-by, of the cabman whom he hails, he prefers not to be seen by them at all, and with that object abandons every activity that would oblige him to go out of doors.
~ Marcel Proust
She insisted, but he would not receive her. He was not even acting out of necessity: she meant nothing to him anymore. Death had rapidly broken the bonds whose enslavement he had been dreading for several weeks. When he tried to think of Oliviane, nothing presented itself to his mind's eye: the eyes of his imagination and of his vanity had closed.
~ Marcel Proust
When Jean and his mother left Etreuilles, Monsieur Sureau had gathered for them great boxfuls of hawthorn and of snowballs which Madame Santeuil had not the courage to refuse. But, as soon as Jean's uncle had gone home, she threw them away, saying that they already had more than enough in the way of luggage. And then Jean cried because he had been separated from the darling creatures which he would have liked to take with him to Paris, and because of his mother's naughtiness.
~ Marcel Proust
As to embrace me she inclined, I waked she fled and day brought back my night.
~ John Milton