Refusal Quotes

“Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?"
I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.”
― A.C. Gaughen, Scarlet

“A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers.
Kestrel looked away from Arin.
She swore to herself that she would never look back”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

“You will not mock me—and you will let me finish. I have owned and lost a kingdom, and I have battled death. I have been through all that, and I will not chase after you like some lovesick poet spouting verse. If you wish to call me yours, then you will have to act as if you are mine. On the front of surrender, there is no middle ground.”
― Nenia Campbell, Star Crossed

“...I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“That was a really rare event. I don't think It's an exaggeration to say that It was the one and only time in my life that I refused something offered to me. My unhappiness was the happiness of a person who could not say no. I had been intimidated by the fear that if I declined something offered me, a yawning crevice would open between the other person's heart and myself which could never be mended through all eternity”
― Osamu Dazai

“could consistently tell me no without making me angry. He was a genius of no.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.”
― William Tecumseh Sherman

“You may bend, but that will not bring your life to an end. Your refusal to give up is the key; your rose flowers blossom from the thorns of life!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beautiful. Otherwise it seems mere peevishness.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on other days not tight enough? Or maybe that is the breath of a living love knowing when to protect, when to release, and when to protect again. For we are the products of an active love - the Father the creator, the Son the perfecter, the Spirit the supervisor - but just like in a factory, to deny the process is to ultimately create a defect of oneself.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“At first the creative mind submits to its entry into the symbolic register and gets itself structured like everyone else. Then he balks at a fateful moment which becomes a turning point in the history of his mental growth. From the entry into the imaginary order where he acknowledges his ego and then to the symbolic order where he recognizes his place in the society and finally in his de-symbolization or a refusal to obey the Law that is the rules of the world of symbols, a creative genius is born.”
― Anuradha Bhattacharyya, The Lacanian Author

“No. Do I need to spell that?”
― Lance Charnes, South

“Proclaim now that you refuse to die without fully living!”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher – her asabikeshiinh – with its willow-web and invisible ‘lady spider’ apparently weaving her spells – an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed.”
― Carla H Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun

“Vivere vuol dire rifiutare. Chi accetta ogni cosa non è più vivo dell’orifizio di un lavandino.”
― Amélie Nothomb, Métaphysique des tubes

“Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don’t get connected, how will you get to know those people?”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“If you don’t want something, refuse it! Refusal is your true way to the stars! Man rises by refusing with courage the things he finds inconvenient!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan