Quotes About Rejection

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

In marriage, for example, feelings of rejection can cause spouses to become hostile and aggressive toward one another.

T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college...Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like getting your first rejection slip at the age of thirty-five.

Every word, every gesture must be analyzed, ad nauseam, in search of hidden rejection. Surges of noxious anxiety emanate from what I call brain farts and travel like sewer gas to my stomach.

She shut the door in the man's face, leaning back against it, her heart hammering with panic.

What happens when you finally decide to tell the truth and no one listens?

Anna turned away abruptly. "You needn't bother," she said. But the girl held her back. "No, don't go! Don't be such a goose. I want to know you! Don't you want to know me?

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

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and punish the pomposity and the rejection which hurt us. Comedy is power.

The following morning she realised they hated her. That hurt her feelings; she always preferred her hatred to be unreciprocated.

Este teléfono sin contestador, la llamaré mañana, hoy se me hizo tarde, esta forma tan cobarde de no decirnos que no.

The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.

The hardest part about being an outcast, isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants.

I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

Suddenly, the gods have stopped saying yes and have started making really obnoxious farting noises. In my face. With their armpits.

Em knows how to nurse a grudge. She doesn't act out, doesn't yell or cry or throw things. She just quietly removes you from the circle of people she trusts. Once you cross that line with Em, there's no going back.

No one had ever wanted him before. He wished he could take her in his arms, in front of her sisters

her size bothered them, like a piece of mail they couldn't find a mailbox for. Still, there were other young

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.