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Letter "D" » 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.»
«PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of dejection.»
«RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.»
«PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.»
«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.»
«Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection»
«Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.»
«As high as we have mounted in delight,In our dejection do we sink as low.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: dejection

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