Rejection Quotes

“Rejection feels like shit, even when it comes from someone who might not matter that much.”
― Lynn Painter, The Love Wager

“The awful reality of life is that kids can sometimes be ruthless toward one another. Kidding, teasing, taunting, and mocking with sadistic sarcasm, they have exterminated innumerable self-esteems. Some are more adept at Humiliation 101 than they are at math or science. It's a choice between homework and hassling a weaker member of the human race. And the latter often wins out. No wonder. It's much more fun to obliterate a person's already fragile self-image than it is to work fractions for some teacher who attended school with your grandmother. It's an art form, actually, with some kids as budding Rembrandts. Whether vocal or unspoken, direct or passive, it's always destructive. Like an arrow, the rejection a young person feels plunges deep within, causing a wound that can take decades to heal.”
― Jeff Kinley

“Imagine if Henry weren't serious and I ended up liking him just because I thought he like me? A woman shouldn't be expected to love a man just because he loves her.”
― Ayisha Malik, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park

“The scapegoat is the family punching bag. On a daily basis, you are singled out for all of the collective ridicule, made into the butt of every joke, and excluded from family events, holidays, and important legal matters. It doesn't take long for outsiders or other relatives to take note of your role and to be drawn into the destructive dynamics. Family scapegoats are belittled, humiliated, battered, rejected, betrayed, and treated poorly. It's a clear case of psychological abuse, manipulation, and harassment.”
― Dana Arcuri CTRC, Toxic Siblings: A Survival Guide to Rise Above Sibling Abuse & Heal Trauma

“And so the conversation ends. Judith has turned him down, but at the same time she has offered him a little crumb, which is supposed to make him feel grateful, which he supposes he is, and yet, after settling for so little after hoping for so much, he understands that he has been reduced to the status of a mendicant, knocking on the back door of the palace and begging the royal scullery maid for some leftover scraps from the queen’s plate.”
― Paul Auster, Baumgartner

“An Unrequited Vision by Stewart Stafford

Though the sheen of infatuation,
Deflects the glare of humanity,
I must bathe naked in my flaws
To peel your blinding cataracts.

This intrusion is not a sweet union,
'Tis a hand plucking a stringless harp,
A looking glass without reflection,
A mirage of the shimmering sun.

Affection's look clouds with malice,
Eyes flit to the blade to save face,
Stay that rash hand of vengeance,
Allow a beauteous refill of your gaze.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Reject when they offer what you don't want... and use that time as an opportunity to ask for what you really want instead.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“The story of Christmas is too often rejected simply because it is the answer that mankind doesn’t want to a need that mankind won’t acknowledge.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Eventually we learn to live..

Beyond the concepts of
Selections and rejections.
Awards and lacks.
Contentment and disappointments.
Applauds and anonymity.

Comparisons and distinctions too
become outworn in the process.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“Fear of rejection is friend of failing.”
― Daniel

“i get it, you're a handsome latin action hero, i'm a trailer troll with the wrong eating disorder”
― Jason Pargin, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

“Certain rejections, within your career, will highlight the aspects that you need to improve on. What you do with this, is solely up to you.”
― Robin S. Baker

“If the outcome is not the outcome you want (profound reciprocity and readiness to take this thing to the next level), promise that you will strive to feel sadness, not shame.

Grieve the fact that this person does not want what you want, but do not turn against yourself. Direct your disappointment toward the outcome, not toward you as a person.”
― Alexandra H. Solomon, Love Every Day: 365 Relational Self-Awareness Practices to Help Your Relationship Heal, Grow, and Thrive

“When a man can’t accept rejection, there’s no such thing as letting him down easy. So just accept the fact that he might call you a mean, stuck up B! among other things depending on how bruised his ego is over you politely saying you’re not interested. It’s not you- it’s him.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Liberation awaits us when we are able to seperate out present friction from early tragedy. The people we attempt to ask out for dinner are not - in reality - the figures from yesterday on whom we depended and who let us down when we had few other options. We don't need to take their verdict as anything other than a straightforward declaration of unavailablity from which we need to draw no grand conclusions as to our significance as human beings. We will scatter our invitations as widely and as innocently as we must when we growable to accept that sometimes a 'no' may just be a 'no”
― The School of Life, How Ready Are You For Love?: A path to more fulfilling and joyful relationships

“Rejection on all levels, no matter how small or great, shows absolutely no mercy to its victims.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exposed

“I would much rather be rejected for who I am than accepted for who I am not.”
― Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide

“...I [Gandalf] may be away for a good while; but I'll come and see you [Frodo] again, as soon as I can. Expect me when you see me! I shall slip in quietly. I shan't often be visiting the Shire openly again. I find that I have become rather unpopular. They say I am a nuisance and a disturber of the peace...”
― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“if my tweets get on your god damn nerves, block me first, kill me with your powerful brain”
― Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

“Jealousy is one of the worst of them, longing, and desire, this crazy love is the same as negative love I mentioned earlier. The other way around, when you are in love and you are rejected, this can have a profound effect on your self-confidence on your emotions, creating instability some people take to drinking, some to drugs, and some even commit suicide when they feel rejected.”
― Kenan Hudaverdi, Emotional Rhapsody

“What the fuck?” Nolan asked and turned to face the guys.

“I told you. Dante’s lost it, man.” Julian said and came to me, hugging me tightly when I stood. When he released me, we turned to face the others.

“That’s a fucking understatement. What did you do to him?” Nolan asked me with a frown.

“Me? Why is it my fault he became unhinged?” I seethed, glaring at him.

“Well, considering he hasn’t gone apeshit for anyone but you, obviously you did something.” Nolan shrugged.

“Fuck you.” I hissed.

“She’s right. Dude should be able to take rejection.” Kit chimed in.

“That’s all you did?”
― C. Reid, Demon I’ve Become

“Isobel: Will you still be a surrogate, Cian?

Oscar: Fucking hell.

Moses: See? It’s already starting.

Cian: Of course, doll. But it can’t always be me. You might form an attachment to me.

Isobel: No danger of that.

Cian: Wow.”
― Jane Washington, Tourner

“Rejection is just feedback in disguise. It is not a reflection of your worth but a part of the process. Use it as motivation to refine and improve. Rejection is a temporary setback. The path to success is rarely linear. Embrace the detours and setbacks; they often lead to unexpected opportunities.”
― Carson Anekeya

“While rejection is a possibility—an inevitable fact of life—the greatest rejection lies in denying yourself the opportunity by opting not to pursue it at all.”
― Erwin D. Maramat

“We came so close,
Only a kiss away,
When the dream shattered
And we were left to admire
The fleeting moment,
Now just a memory”
― Bakhtawar

“[W]hat made them contrary was their apathy towards other people's opinions about them. Well, outward appearances were one thing. Inside, with only each other to confide in, they felt the cold shoulder of rejection the same as anyone.”
― Luanne G. Smith, The Raven Spell

“It always happens. Always. Little by little, something inside me comes to the surface and drives everyone away.”
― Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

“Knowing your why could be what keeps you going in the face of rejection.”
― Jamie Kern Lima, Believe It: How to Go from Underestimated to Unstoppable

“If that which was created denies the existence of that which created it, the created will begin a process of rejecting everything associated with the Creator. And in time that will leave the thing created having emptied itself of everything and thereby creating an existence of nothing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The god that we need to be in denial of is the one that we purport to be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough