Quotes About Rejection

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

If you do not join the polluted, then you are pure; if you reject society in search of purity, that is not purity but fanaticism.

He did not know that he was expected to attempt to buy his way into society and that they anticipated the pleasure of rejecting him. He had no time to notice their disappointment.

The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care

The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.

Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. In sales there are usually four or five "no's" before you get a "yes."

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.

Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition.

I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king." Mr. Bahu's face was positively twinkling with Voltairean glee. "He gets lynched.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones." "But the new ones are so stupid and horrible.

In spite of his misery he absolutely refused to take the half gramme raspberry sundae which she pressed upon him, I'd rather be myself he said. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. "I ate civilization." "What?" "It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added, in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

I'm afraid I was a little abrupt recently with a producer who sent me a screenplay. It was rubbish, really. I sent it back with a polite rejection. Then he came back with the plea that 'we tailored it just for you.' I replied simply, 'But no one came to take the measurements.

She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.