Quotes About Rejection

It did not go to King George III.

It's out of the question … Partly because I was always attracted to men or women who were never attracted to me. And I was never attracted to women and men who were attracted to me. I've never met the right person. I'd like to take [one mad plunge]. But not just with anyone; it just doesn't come naturally to me.

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.

Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.

Her love was a glob of phlegm on life's high street.

Contempt for others, like a dog driven from the hall, always found its way back.

It was a good place, a fine place, it should have been her place to belong. Only it was not; Arturus did not want her.

Negarse a admirar es la marca de la bestia.

We who want to admit nothing but what has value, will always seem naïve to those who recognize nothing but what is in force.

My dick didn't seem to be aware that she was there. She kept asking me what was wrong, and I was so out of it that I thought she meant what was wrong with the world, so I started talking about global poverty and shit. I'm not surprised she left. I suspect she won't be coming back.

Leave me alone! Why do you insult me?" and in those heart-rending words he heard others: "I am your brother.

Wonderful, darling Oksana, allow me to kiss you!" the encouraged blacksmith said and pressed her to him with the intention of snatching a kiss; but Oksana withdrew her cheeks, which were a very short distance from the blacksmith's lips, and pushed him away. "What more do you want? He's got honey and asks for a spoon! Go away, your hands are harder than iron. And you smell of smoke. I suppose you've made me all sooty.

Así desapareció un ser humano que nunca tuvo quién lo amparara, a quien nadie había querido y que jamás interesó a nadie

Así desapareció un ser humano a quien nadie defendió, a quien nadie había querido, por quien nadie se interesó… Fue un ser que soportó humildemente las burlas de sus colegas y que bajó a la tumba sin haber realizado nada extraordinario.

If I'd been right enough in the head to track time, I could tell you the date I returned home to find Finbarr, sitting on the curb in front of our building, a satchel at his feet. It was the only time in my life where my heart didn't leap at the sight of him. There was nothing I could do but break his heart once by telling him about Genevieve, and twice by sending him away.

The most salient feature of the statement is its categorical rejection of the idea that there is any wide disparity among people in their innate ability to master science. A blithe egalitarianism reigns. Any attempt to confront this pipe dream with an "elitist" view of the spectrum of talent would be rejected with pious horror.

The saddest day of your life isn't when you decide to sell out. The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out and nobody wants to buy.

Ben, yaln?zl??? istemekle suçlan?p yaln?zl??a mahkum edildim. Bu karara bütün gücümle muhalefet ediyorum. Ben yaln?zl??a dayanam?yorum, ben insanlar?n aras?nda olmak istiyorum.

hay?r demedi. red red ediyorum. ne evet ne hay?r. red red red ediyorum dedi. te?ekkür ederim.

?nsanlar ac?kl? sözler dinlemek istemiyorlar. Onlar? üzmek çok zor, kitab? surat?n?za kapat?veriyorlar, s?k???p kal?yorsunuz sayfalar?n aras?nda.

He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.

I don't like people, I don't like interruptions, and I don't like you.

Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike.

When I was older, I decided that getting a rejection slip was like being told your child was ugly. You got mad and didn't believe a word of it. Besides, look at all the really ugly literary children out there in the world being published and doing fine!