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Quotes About Rejection

Un inconvenient del correu electrònic és que només el pots esborrar una vegada: no pots arrugar-lo, rebotre'l contra el terra, trepitjar-lo, fer-ne mil bocins i cremar-lo. Hi podia haver alguna cosa més cruel, per part d'algú que t'acabava de rebutjar, que una paciència compassiva?
~ Jonathan Franzen
Respectless and depraved, maybe. But happily respectless, happily depraved.
~ Jonathan Franzen
that people were cruel to what they were afraid of loving.
~ Jonathan Franzen
His family feared he might one day succumb to the catastrophe of being a poet.
~ Jonathan Lee
I argue against depth wherever I find it.
~ Jonathan Lethem
He ran the back of his hand up her cheek, with the pretense of wiping away sweat. Do you think you could ever love me? I don't think so. Because I'm not good enough. It's not like that. Because I'm not smart. No. Because you couldn't love me. Because I couldn't love you.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Shy is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.     Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Verlegenheid is als je je afkeert van iets wat je wilt. Schaamte is als je je afkeert van iets wat je niet wilt.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Alguien que no se anima a ser quien es por miedo a que lo rechacen, que no se anima a sentir lo que siente porque le parece que está mal, que no se anima a pensar lo que piensa o a decirlo porque tiene miedo de ser rechazado, alguien que no corre riesgos porque no se banca las responsabilidades y que no sale a buscar lo que necesita sino que se lo pide a otro, alguien así no llega a ser una persona y, por lo tanto, vamos a tener que pensar que es un individuo.
~ Jorge Bucay
Die Gesellschaft stellt eifersüchtig denen nach, die sich von ihr ausschließen, und wird kommen und an die Pforte pochen.
~ Joseph Campbell
Because I have called and you refused, 24 I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded, Because you disdained all my counsel, 25 And would have none of my rebuke, I also will laugh at your calamity; 26 I will mock when your terror comes, When your terror comes like a storm, 27 And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. Proverbs 1:23-27
~ Joseph Campbell
Vance shook his head. "Philly, I love you, buddy. I do. But you're not my type." "I'm not?" "What? Are you insulted?" Philip was pondering that when the front door jingled.
~ A. Lee Martinez
Judy went back to Paulie's place, but either he wasn't home or he wasn't answering his door. After banging on the door for four minutes, then waiting another ten, she decided she'd probably have to find someplace else to crash today She wished she'd taken the time to actually have a few friends.
~ A. Lee Martinez
I've never believed in destiny. My personal philosophy is one of feigned entropic denial.
~ A. Lee Martinez
Being a wife to a man is like being a lid to a jar: if she doesn't fit, he'll simply try another lid.
~ A. Van Jordan
Christianity has been wrongly accused of taking over all that was beautiful in anterior forms of worship; it is the last transfiguration of universal orthodoxy, and as such it has preserved whatsoever belonged to it, while rejecting dangerous practices and idle superstitions.
~ Éliphas Lévi
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
~ Aaron Machado
Another problem posed by excessive reliance on acceptance, admiration, or love is that we do not possess a reliable gauge that another person is, indeed, rejecting, reproaching, or critical of us.
~ AARON T. BECK
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Åžayet kendinden talep edilene -a??r? sevgi talebine- boyun eÄŸmeyen Cordelia gibi hüsrana uÄŸratan konumundaysan?z, o zaman baÅŸka tür bir otoriteye, gerçekçi biçimde verebileceÄŸiniz ÅŸey üzerinde bir otoriteye sahipsinizdir: "Efendimizi sevmem gerektiÄŸi kadar seviyorum./ Ne daha çok ne daha az" s. 17
~ Adam Phillips
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
~ Adam Phillips
When a girl turns down your advances, the polite thing to do is just move on.
~ Adam Selzer