37 Quotes About Being Ignored

In a world of fierce competition it can be easy to feel like you are being ignored. Whether you are looking for your next job or trying to start new relationships, it can always be a struggle to find your place. These quotes about being ignored will encourage and inspire you to change your actions for a new outcome.

“All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.”

“Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.”

“Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because theyare ignored.”

“Feel proud when peoples ignore you and thank God you missed the worst.”

“He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.”

“I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.”

“I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist’s big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that’s great.”

“I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.”

“I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is.”

“I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.”

“If the people in the audience are talking, you’re being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you’ve got something they want to hear.”

“If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.”

“In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.”

“In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It’s hugely prevalent, all too often ignored – and being ignored, it is therefore condoned.”

“It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.”

“I’ve been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silence so far, without spilling a drop.”

“Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!”

“Lonely isn’t a feeling when you’re alone, lonely is a feeling when no one cares.”

“Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know.”

“People ignore design that ignores people.”

“People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored.”

“Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.”

“The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldn’t.”

“The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.”

“The worst thing a guy could do for a girl’ Personally I think it’s to ignore her while she’s loving you with all her heart.”

“There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you’re trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.”

“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“There’s a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.”

“These doorsteps seldom have a visitor. The warping boards pull out their own old nails With none to tread and put them in their place.”

“Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.”

“We’ve seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press.”

“What’s worse than being hated is being ignored, because it’s like you don’t exist at all and your presence is nothing.”

“When your friends are ignoring you that means they weren’t your friends from the beginning, they where just acting like it.”

“When your’re nothing, people will ignore you but when you’re on top that’s when everybody swear they know you.”

“Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”

“You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore you and we choose to exercise this right.”

Ignoring people can be emotionally painful and cause distress and hurt feelings between one another.