#depression

"There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet."

"I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope."

"Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love."

"You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious."

"Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression."

"It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.""And what is that nightmare, Craig?""Life."

"If ever I was running, it was towards you."

"I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all."

"Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?"

"But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness."

"Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org"

"I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault."

"I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity."

"I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness."

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."

"Deep love for humanity is a vaccine for depression."

"A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle."

"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."

"Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system."

"He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair."