Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

Whenever you lose, it hurts.

I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box. When the box was finally full I took it to the curb and set it on fire. The next day I went out and got a temp job.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging.

Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

You have to do disappointment twice.

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

Disappointment came to me, and booted me, and bruised and hurt me, but that's how people grow up.

I just don't want to get used to feeling this feeling, you know, losing basketball games.

Time heals all wounds.

I'm human. When you lose, of course you're going to be upset. It's a horrible feeling.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

Even at 30 or 40, if something doesn't do well, it still hurts. If I pinch someone, the pain is going to be the same whether the person is young or old.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.