#depress

Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else. ↗

— David Levien

#hopelessness #luck #pain #luck

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#joy #nearly #pursuing #revelations #scientist

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#descriptions #down #feel #make #me

So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression. ↗

— Harry Reid

#comfort #depression #give #hurting #i

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it. ↗

— William Glasser

#depressed #happened #neurotic #over #over it

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#art #balance #calming #depressing #devoid

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#citizen #day #depression #every #every day

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst. ↗

— Ray Brown

#crack #depression #down #like #off

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. ↗

— Larry Elder

#crow #depression #during #father #great

Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only Diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Downpulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#depression #age