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“Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.”
“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”
“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”
“You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.”
“my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesa...”
“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.”
“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”
“In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I loved it because I thought it was all I had. I thought depression was the part of my character that m...”
“Why is it that people who are absorbed by something are seen as sad? I can't explain it, but for me it reverses the true state of affairs. To be engaged is to be a part, to be absorbed and fulfille...”
“You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.”
“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”
“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
“One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
“I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.”
“If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?”
“As she fell, Esther wasnt worried about being blown off course and plummeting into the rocks below. She wasnt worried about hitting the shallows and pin diving to the ocean floor and shattering her...”
“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to th...”
“I will be stronger than my sadness.”
“Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?”
“If I am a puzzle, this is the moment in which I find the first corner piece. There is still a lot of work to do; I still have a thousand pieces of myself to fit into place. But everyone knows you'r...”
