"There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'""The mood will pass, sir."
- P.G. Wodehouse
"Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism."
- Amit Kalantri
"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."
- Munia Khan
"If others are judgmental and do not appreciate your life's work, don't be dejected. Try to see the incapability of others who are unable to understand the things you understand, and appreciate the cap..."
- Ashish Mandlik
"What we perceive as dejection over the futility of life is sometimes greed, which the monastic tradition perceives as rooted in a fear of being vulnerable in a future old age, so that one hoards posse..."
- Kathleen Norris
"For a brokenhearted person memories are the vital parts of misery"
"Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones."
- Sergei Lukyanenko
"A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect persons whom they trusted to someday betray them. People inevitably wi..."
- Kilroy J. Oldster
"I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day."
- Philippa Gregory