“My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.” WayLittlesChoicesLossCostRejectionRejectsSighIndescribable Book:Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997 Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997
“The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace each other, to engage each other, to not be afraid of each other. The music certainly has that very strong element. Go back to folk songs, gospel, jazz, and spirituals. See, all of that came out of tremendous pain and hurt, rejection, loss, alienation, and abandonment. What I'm doing is I'm expressing my pain and hope at the same time.” EnoughPainSongStrongHurtLossComfortEmbraceJazzRejectionVery StrongAlienationAbandonment Author:Cecil Williams
“You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.” PeopleLoveLifeNextLossDealsRelationshipGoes OnGet UpRejectionNext Day Author:Taylor Swift
“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 over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” PeopleHeartKidsPainSongCultureLossMusicWorryViolenceSadnessBrokenListeningGunMiseryScaredViolentVideoTeenagerRejectionFidelityKids Playing Book:High Fidelity Source: High Fidelity
“Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.” WorldFeelsPainLossCrazyRejectionGutsEnd Of The World Book:The Secret Life of Prince Charming Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming