Noun
A casting down; depression.
The act of humbling or abasing one's self.
Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.
The discharge of excrement.
Faeces; excrement.
Source: Webster's dictionaryExtreme pride or dejection indicates extreme ignorance of self. Baruch Spinoza
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. Gustave Flaubert
As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. William Wordsworth
The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness... Leo Tolstoy
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. Ambrose Bierce
Silence and reflection cause no dejection. German Proverb