#depression

I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering. ↗

— Albert Borris

#self-harm #self-injury #suicide #suicide

Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence. ↗

— Sally Brampton

#physics

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn. ↗

— Anne Frank

#cowardice

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#memoir

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now. ↗

— Michael Poeltl

#depression #guns #pain #saddness #war

An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust. ↗

— Barbara W. Tuchman

#hope #hopelessness #self-belief

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination. ↗

— George Eliot

#depression #emotions #fatigue #imagination

Since you act as though God is dead, I wanted to join you in the mourning." The reply of Martin Luther's wife, in full funeral regalia, in trying to illustrate the folly of his depressed state. ↗

— Mark Driscoll

#faith #humor #faith

After every sunny day, comes a stormy night ↗

— Of Monsters and Men

#hope #men

Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don´t you riot like everyone else. I don't care, life's too long. You can have any man you want. I want him...except him. Always suspected the world didn't smell of fresh paint and flowers. Smells of piss and human sweat If there could have been more moments like this. ↗

— Sarah Kane

#desire #love #pain #sadness #life