Quotes About Dejection

And Elinor, in quitting Norland and Edward, cried not as I did. Even now her self-command is invariable. When is she dejected or melancholy? When does she try to avoid society, or appear restless and dissatisfied in it?

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

This is the saddest place on Earth," I say. "Take it from a rat, kid--there are lots of saddest places on Earth.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later

With painful dejection he awaited the end of this action, in which he regarded himself as a participant and which he was unable to arrest. A personal, human feeling for a brief moment got the better of the artificial phantasm of life he had served so long. He felt in his own person the sufferings and death he had witnessed on the battlefield. The heaviness of his head and chest reminded him of the possibility of suffering and death for himself.

My passions, when roused, are intense, and, so long as I am activated by them, nothing equals my impetuosity. I no longer know moderation, respect, fear, propriety; I am cynical, brazen, violent, fearless; no sense of shame deters me, no danger alarms me. Except for the object of my passion, the whole world is as nothing to me; but this only lasts for a moment, and the next I am plunged into utter dejection.

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.

right at this moment, I cannot imagine it being any worse right here, I have been turned into nothing right now, I am negated

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this: The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.

You don't bring me anything but down.

On her bad days, she felt like a dead albatross would be more appropriate headgear for her, suiting her mood and her apparent role in life.

about failed to cheer her. She felt the

And amongst us one,Who most has suffered, takes dejectedlyHis seat upon the intellectual throne.

Over the past few years I have visited a great many residential homes, at home and abroad, and each time I step over the threshold I feel an anticipatory lowering of the spirits, a kind of muted dejection.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

Dejection stems from one of two sources—I have either satisfied a lust or I have not had it satisfied. In either case, dejection is the result. Lust means "I must have it at once.

Some of the girl's cheery hopefulness had come back to her in the presence of her brother's dejection, as a woman always forgets her own sorrow when someone she loves is grieving.

The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.