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Despondent Quotes

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: agony, anguish, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, as-happy-as-a-clam, beaming, beatific, bliss, blissful, blissfulness, blithe, blue, broken-hearted, buoyant, carefree, chagrin, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheerless, cheery, chirpy, content, contented, contentment, dejected, dejection, delight, delighted, depressed, depression, desolation, despair, despairing, despondency, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, distress, doleful, dolefulness, down, down-at-the-mouth, down-in-the-dumps, down-in-the-mouth, downcast, downhearted, ecstasy, ecstatic, elated, elation, enjoyment, euphoria, euphoric, exhilarated, exhilaration, exuberance, exultant, face, faces, forlorn, funny, gaiety, glee, gleeful, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, glum, glumness, good-spirits, gratified, grief, grinning, happiness, happy, heartache, heartbroken, hilarious, hole, holes, humor, humorous, humour, hurting, impression, impressions, in-a-good-mood, in-good-spirits, in-seventh-heaven, jocular, jocund, joke, jokes, jollity, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyless, joyous, jubilant, jubilation, jumping-for-joy, lighthearted, lightheartedness, long-faced, low-spirits, lugubrious, malaise, melancholy, merriment, merry, miserable, misery, morose, mournful, mournfulness, on-a-high, on-cloud-nine, on-top-of-the-world, opinion, opinions, over-the-moon, overjoyed, pain, pit, pits, pleased, pleasure, quotations, quotes, radiant, rapture, rapturous, sad, sadness, satire, satisfaction, satisfied, smiling, sorrow, sorrowful, suffering, sunny, the-blues, thrilled, tickled-pink, torment, transports-of-delight, tribulation, unhappiness, unhappy, untroubled, walking-on-air, well-being, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretchedness
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Donna Lynn Hope
“I smile when I want to cry. I laugh when I want to die.”
― Donna Lynn Hope
tags: depression, despondent, grief
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“We seek to escape the dark cave of a despondent mind by either dulling oneself mentally or through imaginative acts. One form of escapism is daydreaming.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
tags: daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreaming-quotes, daydreamingescape-from-reality, depression, despondency, despondent, eam, escapism, melancholy
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: compassionate, concerned, consoling, despondent, disheartened, distressed, downcast, downhearted, empathetic, feel, full-of-pity, grief-stricken, heartbroken, humor, humour, impression, inconsolable, moved, people, sad, satire, sorrowful, sorry, sympathetic, unhappy, unsympathetic, upset
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It is possible to have a thousand problems and still not have a single valid reason to kill yourself.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: depressed, depression, despondent, hope, hopeful, hopeless, never-give-up, problems, suicidal, suicide
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It is almost always better to take a chance and hope that your life will get better instead of ending it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: depressed, depression, despondent, faith, hope, hopeful, hopeless, motivation, suicidal, suicide
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“There are tears in her eyes. Ted has never seen her look so despondent, and Anna often looks very, very sad.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This
tags: crying, depressed, despondent, kristen-roupenian, sad, you-know-you-want-this
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Marcha A. Fox
“Somehow the thought she might be next wasn't nearly as terrifying as the realization he was gone.”
― Marcha A. Fox, A Psilent Place Below
tags: despondent, grief, loss, science-fiction-young-adult, sorrow
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: christmas, despair, despondent, god, holiday, hope, hopeless, hopelessness, jesus, jesus-christ
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Adam Rabinowitz
“...feeling again that sensation of being completely invisible in a room full of people; a feeling he had come to loath.”
― Adam Rabinowitz, Garage Band
tags: despondent, invisible, isolated, lonely, unnoticed
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Kailey Bright
“I was that servant girl again, so distant now that her return struck me with despondence and torn familiarity.”
― Kailey Bright, Unity
tags: despondent, disassociation, past-self, self-reflection, servitude
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“You can't thrive if you keep hiding in the shadows. For this reason, you have got to turn on your light a little bit.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia
tags: available, brightness, despondent, extinct, running-away, shortcomings, thrive, thriving, turn-on, unavailable
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