There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to ‘gamble’ on an unknown.

As am I.” He yanked his shoulder free and continued walking back inside the castle.

Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes,...

I applied for an overnight stocking position at a supermarket, but I didn’t get the job. It probably went to somebody the manager knew. What, did I have to go to Harvard to get the...

If I were a shovel salesman, my biggest customers would be murderers. Oh, and spurned lovers trying to bury the past.

Acting is a life of rejection.

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.

Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby...

Do not marvel brothers if the world hates you, the world rejected and rebelled against God and His truth.

Jane felt that he would write from the depths of a wretchedness that would not necessarily be insincere because its outward signs were so theatrical. Pesumably attractive men and probably woman too must always be...

Many of us live in denial of who we truly are because we fear losing someone or something-and there are times that if we don’t rock the boat, too often the one we lose is...

I submitted a poem last night to The New Yorker. They said it can take up to three months to hear back. I got rejected immediately.

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.

The more you try to impress, the more you become depressed, and the more they get tired of your coercion. It doesn’t make them love you, instead, they’ll see you as a little child, trying...

Stay the night, said the officer, patting a confiscated couch. I’ll keep my hands off you. I promise.You have more than hands, said Elie.My feet are safe, too, said the officer. He pointed to a...

When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the...

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.