Quotes About Rejection

If you don't want to laugh or touch things that are farther away, then I don't want your advice anyway.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein—it rejects it." —P. B. Medawar

It's easier to throw away a child who reacts to his abuse than attempt to heal his pain.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

NO, I will not accept straight edge into my life!

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

I just can't get used to life.

Nos are just as valuable as yeses in the game of life. In fact, they're essential.

I'm dying and all I hear are insults!

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

The unbelieving world increasingly rejects the truth about God, while the believing world increasingly ignores the truth about God.

Fear of rejection is a sign of neediness—specifically, the need to be liked.

Embrace "no" at every opportunity in a negotiation. Don't fear the word, invite it. You do not take it as a personal rejection because you are not needy. You understand that every "no" is reversible.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.

Since antiquity, men have defined themselves by those who are excluded.

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.