#depress

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. ↗

— John Green

#depression #dying #life #life

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life #life

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#silence

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years. ↗

— John Bright

#bad #caused #depression #extension #great

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#life #loneliness #sunshine #life

At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#walking

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. ↗

— Adam Ant

#i #illness #life #most #my life

Never take the first brick out of the wall unless you know it is meant to fall ↗

— Bathsheba Dailey

#encouragement #faith #hurt #love #faith

Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression. ↗

— Jan Wong

#depression #mental-health #mental-health

There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt tears rolling down the both of our faces. But, in that kiss, there was even more want. We both wanted to smother out that pain, to not have so many horrible things in the all too recent past, to just be normal, to do the types of things we were supposed to be dealing with besides death and disability. ↗

— Keary Taylor

#death #depression #disability #fear #hurt