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Quotes About Rejection

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect
~ Fernando Pessoa
Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.
~ Fawad Afzal Khan
Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
~ Tom Wolfe
Before she could touch him, he stepped back. "I've no need of a human." "Half-Light, " she corrected, still meeting his gaze in the surface. "I've no need of a dragon magician.
~ Susan Scott, Dragons Will Fall
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
The men who indulged in nocturnal thought, it seemed to me, had without exception dry, lusterless skins and sagging stomachs. They sought to wrap up a whole epoch in a capacious night of ideas, and rejected in all its forms the sun that I had seen. They rejected both life and death as I had seen them, for in both of these the sun had had a hand.
~ Yukio Mishima
He radiated the innocence that marks the absolute rejection of prudence.
~ Yukio Mishima
my grief at being eternally excluded…
~ Yukio Mishima
And the trap into which the deformed person finally falls does not lie in his resolving the state of antagonism between himself and the world, but instead takes the form of his completely approving of this antagonism. That's why a deformed person can never really be cured.
~ Yukio Mishima
He never made fun of her as her neighbors did. That was why she visited him. He felt in this mad, ugly woman five years his senior a comrade in apartness. He liked people who refused to recognize the world.
~ Yukio Mishima
The group is a concept of uncommunicable shared suffering, a concept that ultimately rejects the agency of words.
~ Yukio Mishima
I svetlost se još širi i ljudi slave dan. Ja se klonim sunca i bacam dušu u tamni bezdan.
~ Yukio Mishima
The very thing that makes a star spectacular is the same thing that strikes him from the world at large and makes him an outsider.
~ Yukio Mishima
I care about you more than anyone…but all you do is turn away from me." "You don't care about me, Krad. All you care about…is my form…the vessel that you need to manifest. Leave me be! I am not you!
~ Yukiru Sugisaki
Well, you're right. I'm a Freak." "Huh?" "I love being bullied. Being hit and kicked by others gets me totally excited. That's what kind of freak I am. Sorry if that bothers you.
~ Yuna Kagesaki
I was introduced to the void by the rebuffed nothingness. ReddedilmiÅŸ hiçlik taraf?ndan boÅŸlukla tan??t?r?ld?m.
~ Yves Klein
I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
~ Zachary Levi
A pessimistic orientation does not seek accommodations with the system.
~ Zahi Zalloua
Humanity prevails over all other ideologies because one accept it or reject it for him but he cannot deny it because it is about him.
~ Zaman Ali
He had made a fairly unambiguous pass at her, as she was getting out of the cab. But event that had come to nothing. Sheba said that she had sensed something resentful about him, as if he begrudged her for having the power to attract him.
~ Zoë Heller
permití que el ostracismo y la amargura se adueñaran de mi existencia.
~ Zoé Valdés
Dying of love for what does not love them.
~ Deborah Digges
I turned with the receiver to the wall as I absorbed the fact of Ivan's voice, and when I glanced back at the man on my sofa, he seemed like a scrap of paper, or the handle from a broken cup, or a single rubber band—a thing that has become dislodged from its rightful place and intrudes on one's consciousness two or three or many times before one understands that it is just a thing best thrown away.
~ Deborah Eisenberg