Dejection Quotes

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.

Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.

Sadness can feel so unproductive.

Pathetic

I think I am pretty much melancholic.

Grief dejects and wrings the tortured soul.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.

It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.

I felt like things could never get any worse.

Look at Charlie Brown's face. Would you please hold still a minute Charlie Brown? I want Linus to study your face. Now this is what you call a failure face, Linus. Notice how it has failure written all over it. Study it carefully Linus. You rarely see such a good example. Notice the deep lines, the dull vacant look in the eyes. Yes, I would say this is one of the finest examples of a failure face that your liable to see for a long while.

The name of the Slough was Despond.

Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.

You don't bring me anything but down.

I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your money for nothing. But what do you think? I woke up this morning with a beautiful new plot in my head, and I've been going about all day planning my characters, just as happy as I could be. No one can ever accuse me of being a pessimist! If I had a husband and twelve children swallowed by an earthquake one day, I'd bob up smilingly the next morning and commence to look for another set. ~Jershua Abbott

You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.