#depression

It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#sadness #depression

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. ↗

— Anne Sexton

#depression

This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on that story, I became ugly and unhappy and just yelled at people. The cruel thing with depression is that it's such a self-centered illness - Dostoevsky shows that pretty good in his "Notes from Underground". The depression is painful, you're sapped/consumed by yourself; the worse the depression, the more you just think about yourself and the stranger and repellent you appear to others. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#die-zeit-interview #narcissism #depression

The fatigue I've gathered year after year and stored inside now heaves a muted cry of helplessness. Nothing but fatigue, rounding my shoulders, heavier than ever on this late autumn day with a useless sun, a world of unforgiving disasters. So many struggles and tragedies, so much sorrow and egotism in this dark, in this rotting century of hate. ↗

— Emil Dorian

#holocaust #holocaust

So I got a new job, and I start tomorrow. I’m excited to have a job, and bummed out I’m going to be working. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #job #working #funny

A brick could help me hold down a job. Hey, in an economy as bad as this, every little bit helps. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick #brick-and-blanket #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #depression

There’s an unfortunate hustle built into medical care, which favors doing things over not doing things. Most medical care is delivered by a provider who doesn’t know the patient and will never see him again. Doing things is more comfortable than not doing things. Doctors have much more at stake in their relationships with insurers and business managers than in their relationships with patients. ↗

— Mark Vonnegut M.D.

#business

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#always #america #be brave #before #brave

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