#depress

I may be drunk by morning but that will not do any good. I shall take the train to Paris anyway. The train will be the same, the people, struggling for comfort and, even, dignity on the straight-backed, wooden, third-class seats will be the same, and I will be the same. We will ride through the same changing countryside northward, leaving behind the olive trees and the sea and all of the glory of the stormy southern sky, into the mist and rain of Paris. Someone will offer to share a sandwich with me, someone will offer me a sip of wine, someone will ask me for a match. People will be roaming the corridors outside, looking out of windows, looking in at us. At each stop, recruits in their baggy brown uniforms and colored hats will open the compartment door to ask Complet? We will all nod Yes, like conspirators, smiling faintly at each other as they continue through the train. Two or three of them will end up before our compartment door, shouting at each other in their heavy, ribald voices, smoking their dreadful army cigarettes. There will be a girl sitting opposite me who will wonder why I have not been flirting with her, who will be set on edge by the presence of the recruits. It will all be the same, only I will be stiller. ↗

— James Baldwin

#change

Never never never give up. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#inspirational #perseverence #inspirational

…for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown ↗

— Herman Melville

#soul #thought #men

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#depression #hard-times #inspirational #life #inspirational

For I may fall and I may fail but I will stand again each time and you will find no satisfaction. ↗

— pleasefindthis

#fail #fall #i-wrote-this-for-you #inspiration #life

I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work? ↗

— Mike Wallace

#could #decided #depressed #did #fellow

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

#bear #book #bryant #coach #day

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#depression #george #grew #i #imagine

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#generation #great #great depression #great war #had

I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#sanctuary #funny