Quotes About Rejection

God and I have decided to ignore each other. It's for the best.

No self-respecting blowfly wants to lay eggs in acid.

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever – Sylvia Plath

He might have derived a much needed ego-boost from her unabashed pursuit of him, were it not for the fact that he found her combination of entitlement and neediness thoroughly unattractive.

She was tired and miserable and she was saying someone else wanted me, once .

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

Standing in the center of the crowd, his solitude was enormous. He felt that in all the vast and frozen space in which he lived his life - every hand needy, every heart wanting something from him - everybody had a reason to be and a place to land. Everybody but him. For him there was nothing. In all the cold and bitter world, there was not a single place for him to sit down.

John Steinbeck wrote in East of Eden: "The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears.

His final rejection lasted only three days and he broke out of the tomb victorious. This is the Christ who calls on all the suffering people of the world to throw away all that enslaves them as he did and start to live a life of victory, asserting their full dignity and equality in the world.

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

No thanks." Lucas watched the boy hop back onto the street and hold out the tinfoil for his friends' inspection.

The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

To be successful, you need to learn to overcome your fear of being rejected and to stop worrying about what other people say and think about you.

I asked him why he turned us down, and what I could have done better.

Roman polytheism was opportunistic and thus open in advance to possible expansion. Like the English, who would rather make a new law than abolish an old one, the Romans adopted other gods without rejecting any from the old pantheon.

I am dying of the incomprehension of those who could have seen me and held me, dying of the emptiness of cautious and clever people, and of the lovelessness of hesitancy and not-much-liking.

father was ashamed of the baby and left him with his mother.

Brad used to tell him that God wanted to heal the hurts from his past; that God wanted to be the father who would never betray him or hurt him or reject him.

the touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

Robin: I'm sure you've learnt to bake, but you have not learned to handle Much. The phrases that you need my lady, are No, No you can't, and No, get out of here before I throw something at you.

I could wallpaper a room with rejection letters.

Life really does favor the obsessed. Great fortune truly does shine on those mesmerized by their gorgeous ambitions. And the universe most definitely supports the human being unwilling to surrender to the forces of fear, rejection and self-doubt.