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“Aunt Léonie who, after the death of her husband, my Uncle Octave, no longer wished to leave, first Combray, then within Combray her house, then her bedroom, then her bed and no longer 'came down', ...”
“She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors.”
“In that moment, Liz Emerson felt that she was forever looking up at people who were much, much better than she could ever be, and the only thing she was really good at was pulling them down to her ...”
“I hated being around people, couldn’t pay attention to what anyone was saying, couldn’t talk to clients, couldn’t tag my pieces, couldn’t ride the subway, human activity seemed pointless, incompreh...”
“It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.”
“Why not risk your life, if you don't want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you'll never be happy no matter what you do?”
“You have a light in you that’s almost blinding. But in me there’s only darkness. Sometimes I think it’s like the darkness that infected you that night in the inn when you began to cry and to trembl...”
“Depression is not an absence of happiness, it’s a feeling that happiness may never return.”
“I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember this for the next time I’m having a terrible week. Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why. I ...”
“It's easy to feel depressed by focusing on problems. Count your blessings while others are adding up their worries and you will be much happier. Attitude is EVERYTHING!”
“It's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.”
“When your heart is broken, it’s easier to follow rules”
“I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through”
“She’s a gray woman with gray sayings.” “A crape-hanger.”
“Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness”
“I just wanna have fun and breathe, but I can’t do either one of them when I suffocate myself with depression.”
“From that altitude, the world looked calm and vivid and possible. But by the time we landed at Prestwick the clouds were down like the black cap on a hanging judge.”
“We can’t handle absence anymore, anything is better than the blankness; the quiet of nothingness. People fight to put images of love and hate – both equally nauseating – between themselves and the ...”
“It’s disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it.”
“It’s weird for people who still have feelings to be around depressed people. They try to help you have feelings again so things can go back to normal, and it’s frustrating for them when that doesn’...”
