#depression

"I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good."

"He: What’s the matter with you?Me: Nothing.Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her."

"The first time I saw her,Everything in my head went quiet."

"If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul."

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

"I’ll never speak to God again."

"He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over."

"True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you."

"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."

"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."

"Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back."

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

"... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!"

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"…for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown"

"On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression."

"As a rule of thumb, hitchhiking is no fun. If you’re going to stand around waiting to move, you may as well get paid to hold a pawnshop sign."

"Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no two scars are alike, but I also ask myself; even if these scars are not alike, aren’t these things engraved on our souls signed by which we know each other?Aren’t we also alike?"

"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."

"When someone is suffering from anxieties, depression, and stress, the only treatment is to change awareness and consciousness."