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Quotes About Rejection

Since Jesus became thoroughly identified with sin, he would receive its wrath and judgment in our place. This meant he would experience the worst kind of rejection and alienation from the Father, and he would do this for us.
~ Edward T. Welch
When your wants become needs, it means that you have put your trust in people. They have become like a god to you. Yet, for some reason, the true God is patient with you. Although you might reject him, he doesn't reject you. And this is everyone's story.
~ Edward T. Welch
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
~ Albert Ellis
If you prefer to perform well and want to be accepted by others, you are concerned that you will fail and be rejected. Your healthy concern encourages you to act competently and nicely. But if you devoutly believe that you absolutely, under all conditions, must perform well and that you have to be accepted by others, you will then tend to make yourself—yes, make yourself—panicked if you don't perform as well as you supposedly must.
~ Albert Ellis
Nor did he smell any worse, even now, to these humans, than many humans had smelled to Lad's tormented senses, again and again, with their sickening perfumes and tobacco and booze! Lad had borne all that—though he loathed it—for the sake of being near those he loved. Yet when, through no desire of his own, he chanced to be malodorous, they ordered him from them in disgust!
~ Albert Payson Terhune
I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.
~ Alberto Fujimori
No me interesa lo in, no me obsesiona estar on, no cultivo lo cool, no me fascina lo fashion y mi único must es masturbarme; lo friki me da escalofríos. Lo trendy, temblores.
~ Alberto Olmos
rechazo a la inversa. Acepto para destruir. Digo sí para acentuar mi negación tácita.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
I offer myself awfully abyss frost I offer myself you frighten me I offer myself I don't give a fuck
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Es cierto, no hay planes celestiales ni infernales. Pero cuando uno está enamorado busca explicar el rechazo en términos de intriga. El amor es fatal para el pensamiento. La gente empieza a creer en gualichos, en maldiciones, en conexiones mágicas. Siga un consejo: no se enamore.
~ Alejandro Dolina
Asombrar con gestos amorsos a quien nos rechaza es, ante todo, una grosería.
~ Alejandro Dolina
I told her I hated normal people and the land of the fucking free and the home of the asshole brave, and I hated God and George and all and everything.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
The sad fact of life was that there were no cruising spots for heterosexual men. If there were, Joshua would be parked somewhere every day of his life, willing to sleep with any woman generous enough to pull up alongside him.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
What went all-but-unnoticed in the push for lockdowns was the fact that major public health organizations had for decades rejected them as a potential solution to epidemics.
~ Alex Berenson
people who feel like outsiders do one of two things: they either feel rejected, carry a chip on their shoulder and complain that life is unfair, or they use that sense of isolation to push themselves and work like Trojans.
~ Alex Ferguson
I knew something about loneliness, knew what it was to sit in my room, checking my phone for texts that never came, logging onto Facebook to see other people's statuses, happy statuses indicating their lives had gone on while mine hadn't.
~ Alex Flinn
And yet, even when all was well, as Shakespeare said, that ends well, did they say 'Hey, Kendra, we understand that you made a noble effort. Why not come to the palace for some champagne sometime?' Noooooo. They're all, 'Get thee from our kingdom, witch, or it's the guillotine." They're lucky I didn't turn them into talking swine.
~ Alex Flinn Bewitching
The answer to most prayers is no.
~ Alex George
There is much to be said for the artwork that answers horror by rejecting or transcending it.
~ Alex Ross
Sometimes the writer writes one novel, then another, then another, and the first one he sells is the first one the public sees - but mostly, the debut novel is almost never the first novel the writer wrote. There's a private idea of the writer, known to the writer and whoever rejected him previously, and a public one, visibly only in publication. Each book is something of a mask of the troubles that went into it and so is the writer's visible career.
~ Alexander Chee
I loved him, in part, for what he might be someday, which is never a good way to love someone. It was in fact a way of rejecting him, a way of rejecting who he is now, and I think in some way we both knew this.
~ Alexander Chee
Once we give up our true self to play a role, we are fated to be rejected because we have already rejected ourselves. Yet we will struggle to make the role more successful, hoping to overcome our fate but finding ourselves more enmeshed in it. We are caught in a vicious cycle that keeps closing in, diminishing our life and being.
~ Alexander Lowen
if we suffer a loss of love as young children, the grief may still be in us. Children cannot properly mourn such losses because they cannot conceive of a replacement. Such a loss could be caused by the death of a parent, by loss of contact with one parent through divorce, or by parental rejection.
~ Alexander Lowen
Creative ideas in people's minds, but they fall into the trap of fear or rejection. Create a free judgment Wednesday and you spawn a thread creation.
~ Alexander Osborn