#press

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#depression #enough #guess #had #i

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#identity #individuality #inspirational #life #self-determination

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. ↗

— John Green

#depression #dying #life #life

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life #life

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#french #geese #led #profound #swans

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#person

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#hopeless #lonely #alone

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#impressive #make #more #scotsman #sights

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#silence

The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. ↗

— James Randolph Adams

#common #hard #impress #most #people