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Quotes About Rejection

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.
~ Emil Cioran
She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.
~ Émile Zola
All at once, she had fallen into the most extreme wretchedness: that of believing that one is not loved.
~ Émile Zola
Odda?am mu serce, a on je zdepta? i odrzuci?.
~ Emily Bront
Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
~ Emily Bronte
I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
~ Emily Bronte
I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer.
~ Emily Bronte
he was always greedy; though what he grasps with one hand he flings away wit the other.
~ Emily Bronte
Hush, child, hush! Well, then, it is my darling! wisht, dry thy eyes--there's a joy; kiss me. What! it won't? Kiss me, Hareton! Damn thee, kiss me! By God, as if I would rear such a monster! As sure as I'm living, I'll break the brat's neck.
~ Emily Bronte
That made her cry, at first; and then, being repulsed continually hardened her, and she laughed if I told her to say she was sorry for her faults and beg to be forgiven.
~ Emily Bronte
Papa talks enough of my defects, and shows enough scorn of me, to make it natural I should doubt myself - I doubt whether I am not altogether as worthless as he calls me, frequently; and then I feel so cross and bitter, I hate everybody!
~ Emily Bronte
Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only my sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
~ Emily Bronte
Dei-lhe o meu coração e ele o matou e depois o devolveu a mim. As pessoas sentem com o coração, Ellen: uma vez que ele destruiu o meu, não posso sentir nada por ele.
~ Emily Bronte
You enquire after my health — it is better; but while I remain cut off from all hope, and doomed to solitude, or the society of those who never did and never will like me, how can I be cheerful and well?
~ Emily Bronte
I require to be let alone!' exclaimed Catherine, furiously.  'I demand it!
~ Emily Bronte
I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.  And they have all turned to enemies in a few hours: they have, I'm positive; the people here.  How dreary to meet death, surrounded by their cold faces! 
~ Emily Bronte
She, supposing Edgar could not see her, snatched the cloth from my hand, and pinched me, with a prolonged wrench, very spitefully on the arm.  I've said I did not love her, and rather relished mortifying her vanity now and then: besides, she hurt me extremely; so I started up from my knees, and screamed out, 'Oh, Miss, that's a nasty trick!  You have no right to nip me, and I'm not going to bear it.
~ Emily Bronte
I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me...
~ Emily Bronte
Je lui ai donné mon cÅ"ur, il l'a pris, l'a broyé et me l'a rejeté mort. C'est avec le cÅ"ur qu'on sent, Hélène ; puisqu'il a détruit le mien, je n'ai plus le pouvoir de rien ressentir pour lui.
~ Emily Bronte
Las personas sienten con los corazones, y, dado que él ha destruido el mío, yo no tengo capacidad de sentir nada por él
~ Emily Bronte
Don't you know that No is the wildest word we consign to Language?
~ Emily Dickinson
This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me.
~ Emily Dickinson
This is my letter to the world,     That never wrote to me, —
~ Emily Dickinson
I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't give me up or give me away - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were.
~ Emily Giffin