Quotes About Dejection

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel arise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

In the fourth century, John Cassian described a condition among his fellow monks that he called "acedia": a "weariness or distress of heart . . . akin to dejection" that took "possession" of unhappy souls and left them lazy, sluggish, restless, and solitary. Later, acedia became widely translated as sloth, one of the seven deadly sins, and blended with melancholy in the popular mind. Both required, at the very least, confession and penitence.

My drink was wet and depressing. Each time I took another sip it tasted more and more like dead water

Sunday: this satisfied procession Of definite Sunday faces; Bonnets, silk hats, and conscious graces In repetition that displaces Your mental self-possession By this unwarranted digression. Evening, lights, and tea! Children and cats in the alley; Dejection unable to rally Against this dull conspiracy. And Life, a little bald and gray, Languid, fastidious, and bland, Waits, hat and gloves in hand, Punctilious of tie and suit (Somewhat impatient of delay) On the doorstep of the Absolute.

It's just ordinary hopelessness.

Flush me down the toilet. Human waste.

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.

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

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

She hated herself, and had become a loafer and a big no-good who hung around the summer kitchen: dirty and greedy and mean and sad.

Such poor liquor do make a man's throat feel very melancholy--and is a disgrace to the name of stimmilent.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

A man who never asks himself any questions had better not try asking others. In the centre of his being a teacher should have a sense of justice and a great capacity for dejection. Teachers in a place like this, where education is taken seriously, should always bear in mind that they are the central problem, that we would provide the students with a liberal education if we merely gave them the privilege of looking on while we educated ourselves

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

I do feel a bit dejected about my film career. I am sad that it didn't take off as expected. I didn't get my due as an actor. I have an attractive personality and good looks. But I don't know what went wrong? You need to stop thinking about such things and move on.

He shuffled along with the hang-dog look of the cosmically fucked.

he had no affection left in his life—only the pitiful mockery of it in the camaraderie of vice.

Great grief contains dejection. They discourage existence.

I was on the field praising quarterback Dan Fouts during a ceremony to retire his number. Boos began shaking the stadium. It was a moment of misery like I'd never experienced before. Afterward, dejection hung over me for days.

It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now.

Nothing. My heart sank down into my stomach.

Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair.

Christ, he was empty, just a shell of himself. He had nothing to give, not even his seed.