Dejected Quotes (7 quotes)

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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“But I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

tags: defeated, dejected, despairing, failure, iris-murdoch, low-self-esteem, the-black-prince, unrelenting

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“Don’t kill yourself just because you think and feel you are empty. God needs empty vessels to fill!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

tags: bad-mood, dejected, emptiness, feeling-lonely, rejected, suicide, when-things-go-wrong

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“He lay on his back listening to his mother's quiet snoring and thinking how increasingly awful his life was becoming. It was as if he were being squeezed out of the world.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

tags: dejected, iris-murdoch, life, outcast, the-green-knight, worsening

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“At those times when the loneliness has gone on for so long that we have little alternative than to believe that loneliness is the single story that life has penned for us and that there is no other story…at those times we wonder if anyone is listening. And at those times, we would be wise to remember that God is listening to our wondering.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: abandoned, alone, christian, dejected, faith, god, jesus, listening, story

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“A muffled curse comes from the doorway. I jerk my head to find Jeb there, blood drained from his face. His gaze is fierce yet dejected, a deep and gut-twisting wound I haven’t seen since his dad was alive and tormenting him.”
― A.G. Howard, Unhinged

tags: dad, dejected, emotions, jeb

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“Love brings Faith and Hope back to a person.”
― Kamini Arichandran

tags: dejected, dignity, downtrodden, faith, hope, love

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