Quotes About Rejection

But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.

Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

She kicked me off the bed!

Maybe it was human nature to want to please the person who rejects you, who wants you to prove you deserve to be loved. Maybe.

But what would they have said to their Liaison? It's like this, Meg. We didn't like that Asia Crane, so we ate her.

She was trusted and valued by her father, loved and courted by all dogs, cats, children, and poor people, and slighted and neglected by everybody else.

I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.

On the Rules of Perspective A bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone who spends his life drawing profiles will end up believing that man has one eye, Braque felt. Braque wanted to take full possession of objects. He said as much in published interviews. Watching the small shiny planes of the landscape recede out of his grasp filled Braque with loss so he smashed them. Nature morte, said Braque.

Nature abhors a vacuum. And so do I.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. ISAIAH 53:3

Someone brought me oranges in my despair but I could not eat a one

Something was wrong with him - and down deep he'd known his whole life. Maybe the wards had even said something. (You are not right, boy.) Maybe the other children had. (What's wrong with you?) Maybe it had happened while he watched one child after another walk off with a family from the Eastern Villages, with a merchant or a farmer. (You know no one will ever take you, right?) Maybe he'd even said it to himself.

The mob thinks we are maladjusted. Of course we are adjusted just fine, not to their frequency. They take it personally.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Peut-être sa plus grande fierté, ou même, la justification de son existence: que j'appartienne au monde qui l'avaint dédaigné.

To convey my predicament, I never resorted to descriptive terms or expressions such as "I'm expecting," "pregnant" or "pregnancy." They endorsed a future event that would never materialize. There was no point naming something that I was planning to get rid of. In my diary I would write, "it" or "that thing," only once "pregnant.

On another afternoon I entered Saint Patrice's Church just off the Boulevard de la Marne to tell a priest that I'd had an abortion. I immediately realized this was a mistake. I felt bathed in a halo of light and for him I was a criminal. Leaving the church, I realized that I was through with religion.

Il n'a pas répondu et, sans me regarder, il s'est lancé dans la diatribe habituelle contre les hommes qui abandonnent les filles après avoir pris leur plaisir.

Peut-être sa plus grande fierté, ou même, la justification de son existence : que j'appartienne au monde qui l'avait dédaigné.

Je suis dans un état de douleur latente, de celle que masquent les insensibilisants pour un mal physique, écartelée par trois idées affreuses : 1) ne plus jamais le revoir Ã¢â'¬â€œ 2) avoir « perdu » plusieurs mois dans une passion non partagée Ã¢â'¬â€œ 3) humiliation de n'être plus autant désirée, admirée, par rapport aux premiers mois. Les réveils dans la nuit sont noirs.

As a professional athlete, I've been booed by 18,000 people.

When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.

Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.

If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part.