Rejection Quotes

“Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying yes in a relationship means being trapped in yet another family situation where abuse might take place. So the survivor panics as her relationship gets closer, certain that something terrible is going to happen. She pulls away, rejects, or tests her partner all the time.”
― Laura Davis, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child

“There are billions of people in this world that don’t believe or act exactly as we do. It is not our place to reject them, only accept them. Again, we don’t have to agree with everything they believe or do, but we do need to love and accept who they are.”
― Daniel Willey

“The childhood sexual abuse taught me that my value came from sex. In adulthood, I was driven to have sex since I always felt worthless. I felt important and desired until it was over and then I felt like garbage—the same way I did after the abuse. I desperately needed to feel valued again, which led to more sex. My sex addiction only stopped when I believed that I’m valuable apart from anything I do.”
― Christina Enevoldsen

“Misfortune is the best fortune.
Rejection by all is victory.”
― Vālmīki

“It had taken her a good deal of time before she believed that she was worth all that fierce affection he lavished upon her. To have it stolen away unjustly was that much more cruel.”
― Gail Carriger, Blameless

“Rejection Is God’s Protection
When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life.”
― Pamela Cummins, Insights for Singles: Steps to Find Everlasting Love

“Not everyone deals with what they don't like or understand in a positive way. Some people are going to judge you. Sometimes it's someone you really love and being rejected by them is incredibly painful.”
― Lauren Dane, Tart

“We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection”
― Anna R.

“We came here because no place would take us after our momma died. They all said go away, come back when you're older, when you know better, when you've learned. Only no one wants to teach how to be older or to know better - not even Devin. They just teach us how to be broken.”
― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue

“He didn’t even apologize as he sat up, staring down at her. Was
he angry? She guessed not when he began to speak to his erection.
“I know. I can’t believe she left us like this either. Cruel wench,
isn’t she?”
After the long, frightening, horrible day she had, this was not
remotely how she expected to end it. And, against her will, she
smiled.
“Look. Now she’s laughing at us.”
Desperately fighting a bout of laughter, she ordered, “Stop
talking to it.”
He shrugged. “Well you won’t talk to him…and he’s feeling
awfully lonely. And I think you hurt his feelings.” Then he made it
bounce twice in agreement.
Talaith covered her face and sighed. What exactly did her
mother tell her the seven signs of madness were? Well, a dragon
talking to his own shaft had to be one of them.”
― G.A. Aiken, About a Dragon

“It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.”
― Margaret Way, Bauhinia Junction

“To erroneously assert that the unclaimed Shunemite does not treasure the opportunity misses the entire point of this superlative song. She wants to leave with Solomon. This earthly Shunemite would be willing to die to be with Solomon--but until she develops skills of value to his kingdom--she will remain unclaimed.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

“The world of romance and business works on this principle - You may be rejected several times, but not everyone will reject you.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“He offered his love ... she could not bother,
She gives her love to the other! The other!”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

“They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he'd see somebody different, somebody to give his things to, somebody who would give him all their things. Yes. He'd like that. He'd know her when he saw her.

He'd know just what to say.”
― George R.R. Martin, The Pear Shaped Man

“One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap. Fungus was growing on the walls. I polished off a bottle of gin sitting huddled over the two-bar electric fire and wrote a poem, one of the few that has lasted through the moves and the years. It is called 'Where Can I Go?'
If this is not the place where tears are understood where do I go to cry?
If this is not the place where my spirits can take wing where do I go to fly?
If this is not the place where my feelings can be heard where do I go to speak?
If this is not the place where you’ll accept me as I am where can I go to be me?
If this is not the place where I can try and learn and grow where can I go to laugh and cry?”
― Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

“Although some of the people at church rejected and even denounced me, this did not particularly hinder me in my search. Rather, the fact that there were church people as weak and foolish as I was myself gave me a deep sense of reassurance. Arrogantly I thought, 'If God accepts that sort of person, isn't it possible thatHe will even accept me?' And I began to read the Bible more attentively.”
― Ayako Miura, The Wind is Howling: The Autobiography of a Japanese Novelist

“I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced--the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.”
― Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

“Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.”
― Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

“It’s a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.”
― Jerry Spinelli

“Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“He felt teenage rejection overcoming him like a childhood virus that lies dormant, then attacks the unsuspecting adult. It would never be something he would get used to.”
― Kenneth Eade, An Involuntary Spy

“Rejection is part of the journey toward success, so don't be insulted or get upset when it happens. In fact, get excited about how you just got closer to your "Yes!”
― Michelle Moore, Selling Simplified

“Submit your story the same way you submit your heart. Let it break. Bruise it up. Let it get pummeled and sore and when you can’t take it anymore, throw it out there again.”
― Talia Mailman

“Adversity is a school that you need not apply to be enrolled. It has no respect for age, wealth, education, race, power, fame or beauty. It is a school among schools and every human being passes through the school in one format or the other. It is also possible to attend the post graduate department without your consent. You can never attend the school and be the same again. It will change you and purge you of all the things you think that you know. It will bring you to a leveling far beyond all your imaginations. You may also be required to repeat a class with different course or instructors.”
― FRESH IN THE SCHOOL OF ADVERSITY by M M Kirschbaum

“Pity that child who was born near Rouen,
His only crime, to arrive deformed.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

“Strange, how the name Israel, God's own chosen nation, who don't believe Jesus to be the Messiah, sounds almost the same as saying "is He real?”
― Anthony Liccione

“I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion.”
― Jack Steinberger

“I am a cultural Frankinstein”
― Lucy Chau Lai-Tuen

“There are times that insistence of demands becomes the stumbling obstacle, that instead of paving way to something smooth for the realisation of some matters which end up in a ditch of rejection.”
― Angelica Hopes