Rejected quotes
70 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect"
"If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem."
"Once one has rejected faith, it will become impossible for him to enter the gates of Heaven."
"I had been rejected, but I was still in love."
"When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?"
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"There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are."
"Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either."
"Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved."
"All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left."
"I work constantly to be better at being rejected."
"Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected."
"I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work."
"The Stone the Builders Rejected."
"In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade.""
"To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all."
