Quotes About Rejection

I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don't want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.

Here we are, at the place where I get to beg for it. Where I get to say 'Please, for just one night, will you lay down next to me? We can leave our clothes on, we can stay all buttoned up?' But we both know how it goes – I say I want you inside me and you hold my head underwater. I say I want you inside me and you split me open with a knife.

Let me tell you a story about war. A man says to another man, Can I tell you something? The other man says, No. A man says to another man, There is something I have to tell you. No, says the other man. No, you don't.

I take off my hands and I give them to you but you don't want them, so I take them back and put them on the wrong way, the wrong wrists.

The world doesn't know what to do with my love. Because it isn't used to being loved. It's a framework problem.

I was away, I don't know where, lying on the floor, pretending I was dead.

we're shooting the scene where i swallow your heart and you make me spit it up again. i swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth. you swallow my heart and flee, but i want it back now, baby. i want it back.

When a fresh-faced guy in a Chevy offered him a lift, Parker told him to go to hell.

You've asked me out tons of times." "Not really. I've made inappropriate suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date.

I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.

Screw you," I told him in a low voice. "Are you offering?" "From what I've heard, there isn't much to screw," I shot back.

Sydney, this is the kind of shirt that says, 'You're never getting in here.

I shook my head and turned away, unable to hear this. "I'm leaving now. I really don't want to see you again. Nothing personal. Well, yeah, actually it is.

Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, 'Well, that's Adrian.

I was so awash in sensory overload that I was caught completely unaware when he did push me away

Wild and disrespectful? Who the hell are you anyway, outsourced help?" -Rose Hathaway

if you live for the approval of others, you will die by their rejection.

Call me Roy. Everyone else does." He liked her looks—there was no missing that glint in his eyes, and it disgusted her.

Take your preaching elsewhere , boy . (hardcover) p294

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.

But sometimes when I hear people quote the Bible, I just want to throw up.

it is absolutely vital that we acknowledge that love, grace, and humanity can be rejected. From the most subtle rolling of the eyes to the most violent degradation of another human, we are terrifyingly free to do as we please. God gives us what we want, and if that's hell, we can have it. We have that kind of freedom, that kind of choice. We are that free.

What we see in Jesus's story about the rich man and Lazarus is an affirmation that there are all kinds of hells, because there are all kinds of ways to resist and reject all that is good and true and beautiful and human now, in this life, and so we can only assume we can do the same in the next.

The actor Mark Ruffalo went to six hundred auditions before he got his first break. Six hundred NOs before the first YES.