#depression

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #depression

I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#depression

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

Depression is anger turned inward. ↗

— Sapphire

#precious #anger

If you take action while you are mad, you will always make the wrong decision. ↗

— Robyn Wheeler

#depression #inspirational #anger

Listen, Harper. I realize how hard this is for you." A flash of anger heats up in my chest. She doesn't understand. She can't. If she did, she'd leave me alone instead of trying to force me to talk about this. ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#grief #loss #anger

I can't go on like this ↗

— Alex Flinn

#depressions #frustration #anger

and it was the pretending that might explain how she could smile so brightly while her mind felt nothing - as if, at these times, there existed a disconnection between outer and inner, a shutting off, and the key to her happiness lay in warding off pain, or dodging it, or pushing it into the shape of something else - like shame or anger or even hope. ↗

— Sue Saliba

#emotions #anger

It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human. ↗

— Melanie Cusick-Jones

#depression #disillusioned #anger

Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression? ↗

— Kat Lowe

#depression #humor #loss #anger