#press

And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that. ↗

— Peter Cameron

#pessimism #pessimism

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action. ↗

— Robert M. Sapolsky

#pessimistic #self #pessimism

All the letters from A to Z couldn’t express what you mean to me. Not without cloning them and using some over and over ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#express #funny #letters #funny

...Sirius had never kept him waiting before...Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him...If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back...That he really was... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #depressing #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #sad

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination. ↗

— George Eliot

#depression #emotions #fatigue #imagination

The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed. ↗

— Joss Stone

#british #british press #followed #me #press

There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth. ↗

— Toba Beta

#human #life #perception #tongue #truth

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. ↗

— Adam Ant

#i #illness #life #most #my life

If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ↗

— James Madison

#patriot-act #tyranny #war #acting

Never take the first brick out of the wall unless you know it is meant to fall ↗

— Bathsheba Dailey

#encouragement #faith #hurt #love #faith