Quotes About Rejection

havde givet mig dyb modvilje mod mig selv: der var ikke nogen, der kunne elske mig, jeg kunne ikke få nogen til at synes om mig, jeg var kun til at smide væk, afvise. Derfor oplevede jeg alle opbrud, alle genvordigheder, al adskillelse som forstødelse. Bare jeg kom for sent til toget, begyndte tingen af røre på sig. Jeg var et mislykket menneske og derfor mislykkedes alt for mig,

Når jeg så prøvede på at forstå, hvad der skete, lykkedes det mig aldrig, fordi jeg havde visket 'forbudt af mor', 'forstødt af mor', ud og skrevet 'skyldig', 'gal' i stedet for. Jeg var gal, det var den eneste forklaring, jeg kunne give på det.

Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of social pariah.

All this while the little panel of pine wood remained over the chimney in the mill-kitchen with the cuckoo clock and the waxen Calvary, and sometimes it seemed to Nello a little hard that whilst his gift was accepted he himself should be denied.

According to this way of thinking, self-mutilation may be not so much self-punishment as it is a way to punish the rejecting mother—even if the wounds are kept hidden—because an internalized mother remains inside long after the infant recognizes that self and "other" are two separate entities. In fact, because self and other, inside and outside, remain hopelessly confused for cutters, victim and perpetrator can't really be distinguished from each other.

In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.

His problem is that he doesn't want anyone until he can have anyone he wants.

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

I've always loved food too much to be a model.

Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas.

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.

You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.

A fav'rite has no friend!

What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

You're not funny and nobody likes you!

Whatever it is, I'm against it.

My dog watches me on TV. So, if I may take this opportunity, "No! No! No!"

Rejoice when people walk away. If they can't handle who you are now, then they will certainly won't be able to handle who you're going to become.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I'd rather have you reject me rather than have me as an option.