“When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you’ve created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stam…”— Helen Fielding, amazon.com
“Or how feel a surge of love for a partner but we don’t say anything because we’re frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“We are all afraid, but on the other side of fear and rejection is everything we've ever hoped for, if only we can muster the courage to pursue it.”— Kirsten Corley, facebook.com
“Oftentimes when jealousy is present in relationships, its roots are related to rejection and abandonment. A jealous partner may have been rejected or abandoned at some point in their life and the fear of feeling that pain again causes jealous behaviors to surface.”— Robert Rain, amazon.com
“When you are having casual sex, there is no such thing as rejection or having a headache. If you are getting together, you both know what the plan is. Even if you have had a bad day, or worse yet, your partner has, that makes no difference. The sex is the carrot at the end of the day, not the power…”— J. Dallas, bustle.com
“Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.”— Larry Kramer, amazon.com
“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.”— Stieg Larsson, amazon.com
“To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's…”— Jocelyn Soriano, amazon.com
“I could tell you all about rejection. Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection... Look at me now.”— Marilyn Monroe, vanityfair.com
“It's strange how things seem to come full circle. You know what I mean? I'm sure you do. The way your life seems to drift along with no set path, then something good happens to you and you can trace the line that brought you there back to a specific disappointment or rejection you suffered in the pa…”— James Corden, amazon.com
“It's amazin', the amount of rejection That I see in my reflection And I can't get out of the way I'm lookin' forward to the girl I wanna be But regret has got a way of starin' me right in the face So I try not to waste too much time At the bathroom sink”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“I’ve been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.”— Shane Koyczan, blog.ted.com
“Asking a new person to go on a romantic outing has never been easy. It means declaring your attraction to someone and putting yourself out there in a huge way, while risking the brutal possibility of rejection -- or, in the modern era, even an unexplained, icy-cold silence.”— Aziz Ansari, amazon.com
“Because on the other side of rejection, on the other side of that moment you question if you should say something, there comes bravery from within that allows you to continue with words you might regret. But under the surface is hope. Under the surface you wonder, can they reciprocate these intense…”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com