#depression

There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt any desire to do so, but would have been glad, could he be glad of anything, to fling himself down at the root of the nearest tree, and lie there passive for evermore. The leaves might bestrew him, and the soil gradually accumulate and form a little hillock over his frame, no matter whether there were life in it or no. Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#depression #sorrow #death

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#depression #early #formed #great #great depression

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#age #arms #best #bravest #came

Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#suicide-note #funny

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#depression #life #funny

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#lots #love #taking #you

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#character #depression #existence #felt #give

They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#came #depression #disservice #men #men and women

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong! ↗

— Al Dubin

#done #man #money #old #old man

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. ↗

— Patty Duke

#depression #evolution #manic #miracle #recovery