Quotes About Rejection

most of us share the same fears: a fear of rejection, a fear of failure, a fear of not being good enough, a fear of being alone, a fear of losing control and a fear of success.

You can allow yourself to become paralyzed by a fear of rejection or you can go out there and astonish the world. But you just don't get to do both.

Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.

Sascha looked torn. Should she cram my head full of newfound terror that the world would reject me, or let me wander into the big, scary out-there, like a naive lamb prancing to the slaughter?

I was going. I couldn't stay here. Every breath of its stale air, every square inch of the place mocked me, grabbed at my ankles. It needed blood to survive and it wasn't going to get mine.

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs I say, 'no.

A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over. There's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

and the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

While Spinoza did not condemn marriage, he rejected it for himself, perhaps fearing the 'ill temper of a woman', and in any case recognizing in matrimony a threat to his scholarly interests.

The editors of (i)Life(i) rejected Kerész'a photographs when he arrived in the United States in 1937 because, they said, his images 'spoke too much'; they made us reflect, suggested a meaning — a different meaning from the literal one. Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is (i)pensive(i), when it thinks.

l'amour avait fait de lui un déchet social, ce dont il se réjouissait.

though the subject rejects the notion of repeating it elsewhere later on, he sometimes discovers in himself a kind of diffusion of amorous desire; he then realises he is doomed to wander until he dies, from love

Though each love is experienced as unique and though the subject rejects the notion of repeating it elsewhere later on, he sometimes discovers in himself a kind of diffusion of amorous desire; he then realises he is doomed to wander until he dies, from love

To be jealous is to conform...To reject jealousy is to transgress a law.

More than one person who was refused later accused Rockefeller of having ruined him.

When polled in Harper's presence, not a single trustee endorsed his position—a humiliating blow.

but Rockefeller was the sort of stubborn person who only grew more determined with rejection.

I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.

The guy who was standing said, "We don't want you here." Reacher said, "You're confusing me with someone who gives a shit what you want.

We're all atheists. You don't believe in Zeus or Thor or Neptune or Augustus Caesar or Mars or Venus or Sun Ra. You reject a thousand gods. Why should it bother you if someone else rejects a thousand and one?

Echo was a young girl in love with Narcissus. But he loved himself, not her, so she pined away until just her voice was left.

I had worked my butt off for those bastards. I was good at my job. I had made them a fortune. And they just slung me out like suddenly I was shit on their shoe. And I was scared. I was going to lose it all, right? And I was tired. I couldn't start again at the bottom of something else. I was too old and I had no energy. I just didn't know what to do.

To affirm that contemporary tyranny cannot be adequately understood outside the classical frame of reference is to affirm that the classics were justified in their rejection of unlimited technical progress and universal enlightenment.