Top Dismay Quotes

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted th...

Dismay Definition

(v. i.) To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.

(v. i.) To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.

(v. i.) To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.

(v. t.) Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.

(v. t.) Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.