Rejection Quotes
On setbacks, fear, and self-worth.
These Pain quotes look at rejection from several angles, including the fear of it in relationships, the reframing that a setback doesn't equal unworthiness, and the relief of a writer who got lucky avoiding it altogether.
Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
Rejection should ignite soul-searching, and the soul-searching must be absolutely honest.
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Nobody gets through life without experiencing some form of rejection, which is why everybody knows how awful it feels.
Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
Heartbreak Quotes
A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.
Loneliness Quotes
You can make something out of every unfinished story and every rejection if you work at it.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
I was a telemarketer for exactly one week in 2005. I could not take 'no' one more time. I could not take the rejection.
Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
Pain Quotes
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.
There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.
My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
Regret Quotes
Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.
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