Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings...

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...

I confidently walked up to the counter, and his friends moved to the side to let me through. I handed him the note. “Happy Birthday,” I said. Then I smiled and walked out of the...

12 million Gertrudes agree—their name isn’t Gertrude. I know, because I asked them out to coffee, and only one responded. She said yes to coffee—and no to me.

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...

When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree,...

I don’t want anyone who doesn’t want me.

The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism; and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law...

Because I liked you betterThan suits a man to say,It irked you, and I promisedI’d throw the thought away.To put the world between usWe parted stiff and dry:’Farewell,’ said you, ‘forget me.”Fare well, I will,’...

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

You don’t know me, but in case you’ve forgotten, you’re a loser.

I called her twice, but she didn’t call me back. She’s more efficient than me, as she’s able to communicate without communicating. It’s sad, because I had two cups of coffee, and I was going...

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.

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I’ve had both.

In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience.

No one can make you happy other than yourself to choose people to make you happy.

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.

Everyone pretends to be ‘free thinkers’, but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.

I’m more terrified of failure than rejection—so I’ll no my way to YES!

Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.

Though some may see their shortcomings as the greatest evil from the pit of hell, while some throw invectives at God for bringing them into a cruel, problematic world. These shortcomings are transient, the greatest...

She had stared at him for a whole minute and decided that she did not have a grain of feeling left, because it would have been the same as bleeding to death. Fuck You.

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

All upset is a fear of rejection.

Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection sucks the sweetness out of acceptance.

She doesn’t want me to leave, and she doesn’t want me to stay. That’s a double helping of Doesn’t Want Me, and one big I’m Not Hungry back at her.

It’s not you, it’s me.” This line could signify rejection, or it could be something I say in the future, when I’m talking to one of my clones about another one of my clones.

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...

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

You don’t need this prep but I’m going to give it to you anyway. I can tell, I don’t know any of you that well, but I can see it in your faces that and...

The word ‘NO’ is the best motivation there is for the storyteller in you.

I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.

I don’t like rejection. One jection is enough for me. No need to give it to me again.

So when’s the wedding?” Ramsey asked.

Over the past thirty-five years, untold numbers of gay Christians have turned from God in their “failure” and “inability to please God,” who, they were told, could not accept them as a gay person. Some...

Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth – how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.

Each rejection brings us closer to acceptance.

With wrong people, there has to be a choice, to stay with them and go down with them or reject them and suffer alone.

The problem most people have is the inability to say ‘NO’.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power...

Doesn’t matter how pretty you are. What’s important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear “no” often enough.

He won’t say no, but who cares if he does? Do it. Hell, guys go through this every time they make a move on a woman, and none of them has died yet. In many...

Not everyone will understand your journey. That’s fine. It’s not their journey to make sense of. It’s yours.

Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods who demanded that their sacrifices be fearless and without blemish, and I wonder...

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...

When you weep and lament, you will struggle to achieve and rejoice.

I didn’t say one word to her the whole night. No, I said three words: I love you. She only said one word: Goodbye.

I realize all guys have thorns. But I am a rose, and she chose a cactus over me. I wish her luck with her dry, desert-like existence with him.

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...

If I’m going to be rejected, I’d like it to come complete with humiliation.