Quotes of Dejection - somelinesforyou

“ Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness. ”

- Benjamin L. Hooks

“ Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. ”

- Corrie ten Boom

“ The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement. ”

- John R. Stott

“ I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before. ”

- Michael Collins

“ Never despair. ”

- Horace

“ Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. ”

- Willie Nelson

“ The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes, or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague. ”

- Gilbert Murray

“ I think with our problems with hopelessness and cynicism that ultimately has to come from the young people themselves. We've got to realize we are the future and we make of our future what we make of it, and ultimately we have to do it for ourselves. ”

- Chelsea Clinton
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