Rejection Quotes

807 Rejection quotes by 600 unique authors

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor… — Kurt Vonnegut
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. — Edmund White
I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not… — Michael York
Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful… — Henry B. Eyring
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that… — Isaac Asimov
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection… — John Ralston Saul
Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event. — Carl Jung
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them… — Nick Hornby
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I… — Sam Harris
Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?' Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself." ..."At least,"… — Cassandra Clare
Success is buried on the other side of rejection. — Tony Robbins
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage… — Madeleine L'Engle
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. — Lance Armstrong
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,… — Emily Bronte
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. — Audre Lorde
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. — Ray Bradbury
If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love? — Wendy Shalit
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the sanguine, the defeated to the defiant, dealing… — Nick Cave

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