#depress

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#comforting #depressing #find #i #like

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#sadness #suicide #funny

The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million years I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#h #humor

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#depression #enough #guess #had #i

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

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#person

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#hopeless #lonely #alone

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

— Sylvia Plath

#silence

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless. ↗

— Paul Harris

#bless #curse #depress #personality #uplift