#depression

It's as if he can no longer acknowledge the love he felt or the pain I am in. I have been dismissed. I don't think I was smarter or as beautiful as the other girls he did this to. It's just that I was me. It was all I had. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#heartbreak #love #love-loss #pain #beauty

If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#depression #suicide #death

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#being human #depression #dies #etc #experience

It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#around #asked #depression #forces #go

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#ask #depression #depths #job #options

I have a system with bathrooms. I spend a lot of time in them. They are sanctuaries, public places of peace spaced throughout the world for people like me. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#sanctuary #funny

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#earthquakes #economy #geology #study #understand

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#american #billion #depression #different #during

I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression, but I get depressed because everybody gets depressed. Suddenly I'm away from my family or doing a job I'm not enjoying. ↗

— David Thewlis

#because #course #death #depressed #depression

Depression is melancholy minus its charms. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#melancholy #metaphor