“Why do people like you who were adopted feel like they were rejected instead of selected?”— Aaron Sorkin, amazon.com
“‘Why do you leave everyone? Why did you let me go?’‘Maybe because I don’t really believe that it’s going to work and then I make sure that it doesn’t work.’”— Anna and Oliver, Anna and Oliver, imdb.com
“Some will love you for who you are; others will love the mask you wear.”— Garrett Nickelsen, amazon.com
“I don’t hate you. I just dislike you. I dislike you thoroughly and I’m through with you.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.”— Sarah Kay, ted.com
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that’s the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.”— Henning Mankell, amazon.com
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”— Wayne Dyer, goodreads.com
“Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It’s the most important thing we do, in a way. You’ve got to embrace rejection, or you’ll maintain a very limited life. It’ll be very nice and neat - and very, very small.”— Laurie Helgoe, quotes.blognook.com
“You know the worst thing about being rejected? The lack of control. If I could only control the when and how of being dumped by somebody, then it wouldn't seem as bad. But then, of course, it wouldn't be rejection, would it? It would be by mutual consent. It would be musical differences. I would be…”— Nick Hornby, amazon.com
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”— The Dalai Lama, amazon.com
“Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that’s the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.”— Henning Mankell, amazon.com
“To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.”— Jane Austen, amazon.com
“We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“Years go by and I'm here still waiting, withering where some snowman was.”— Tori Amos, open.spotify.com
“When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.”— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson, amazon.com
“Everyone is afraid of rejection; they just don't seem that way because you're not busy living inside of their thoughts.”— John Green, youtube.com
“You don’t need someone who isn’t strong enough to love you. You don’t need someone who can’t even face you and tell you why they had to walk away. You don’t need closure.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you tell someone you care about them, the worst thing they can say is that they don’t feel the same way about you.”— Maya Kachroo-Levine, thoughtcatalog.com