Top Plight Quotes

When the days become darkThe nights become coldAnd all there is, is an empty soulBelieve you can escape your plightEven when relief is out of sightDon't you dare give up the fightDon't you dare

Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our troubles. The problems of others we tend to view at a reasonable distance from the...

Plight Definition

() imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge.

() imp. & p. p. of Pluck.

(v. t.) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

(n.) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

(n.) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.

(n.) Condition; state; -- risk, or exposure to danger, often being implied; as, a luckless plight.

(n.) To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods.

(n.) To promise; to engage; to betroth.

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.