#depress

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#almost #anything #being #cage #compounds

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#assemble #content #depressed #end #i

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#answer #asked #avoid #borrowed #could

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly. ↗

— Zane Grey

#depress #effect #hurt #i #i see

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#artist #depression #good #known #mood

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#crisis #depression #economic #economic crisis #generated

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dark #defeat #depression #giving #had

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. ↗

— Karen Horney

#concern #depression #drive #into #should

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#i #optimist #optimistic #out #pessimist

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