#depress

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#charms #depression #fits #melancholy #minus

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#back #banking #century #crises #depression

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#depression #fifty #i #inexperienced #loudspeakers

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

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

My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen ones. He was the one parent who didn't try to fix me. One night I sat on his lap in his chair by the woodstove, sobbing. He just held me quietly and then asked only, "What does it feel like?" It was the first time I was prompted to articulate it. I thought about it, then said, "I feel homesick." That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#family #feelings #homesick #words #courage

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. ↗

— Sivananda

#depression #failures #fill #future #grief

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#happiness #life #optimism #struggle #survival

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#dreams #reality #sadness #dreams

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#depression #poetry #sadness #suicide #art