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I lived my grief, I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.

~ Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb Cry Death Depression Empty Forget Grief Hollow Ignore Life Loss Mourn Mourning Numb Pass By Sorrow Tears

There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything else has ended and nothing else can ever begin.

~ Robin Hobb

Robin Hobb Begin Beginning Coincide Depression Empty End Ending Initiate Lead Loss Mark Mourn Mourning Numb Passage Show Sign Sorrow Space Start Time

Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.

~ Patrick Carman

Patrick Carman Chronic Illness Depression Disability Illness

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.

~ Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad Ashes In The Mouth Bittersweet Memories Dark History Depression Despair Disappointment Expectations Falling Short Futility Grief Haunted Past Heartache Hope Nostalgia Pointlessness Regrets Sins Smoke In The Eyes Unrest Vanity Why The World Needs Jesus

What would I put in my bottom drawer? – I would put only sharp objects, the clean lines of broken glass, the honed steel of paring knives, the tiny saw-teeth of bread knives and the soothing edges of razor blades, I weigh knives in my hands like strange comforters.

~ Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson Depression Suicidal Thoughts

For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over and over to wreck myself on another human, and always failed. I fail now. For it seems that my sorrow is deep in my bones and I'd have to break every single one to let it out.

~ Louise Erdrich

Louise Erdrich Depression Sadness Sorrow

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Yet they are the outcome of life in a culture where things matter more than people. Materialism creates a world of narcissism in which the focus of life is solely on acquisition and consumption. A culture of narcissism is not a place where love can flourish. The emergence of me culture is a direct response to our nation's failure tot truly actualize the vision of democracy. While emotional needs are difficult, and often impossible to satisfy, material desires are easier to fulfill.

~ Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks Consumption Depression Narcissism

There is a moment, if you trip or slip, before your hand shoots out to break your fall, when you feel the earth rushing up at you and you cannot help yourself, a passing, fraction-of-a-second terror. I felt that way hour after hour after hour. Being anxious at this extreme level is bizarre. You feel all the time that you want to do something, that there is some affect that is unavailable to you, that there’s a physical need of impossible urgency and discomfort for which there is no relief, as though you were constantly vomiting from your stomach but had no mouth.

~ Andrew Solomon

Andrew Solomon Anxiety Depression

There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell.

~ C.g. Jung

C.g. Jung Depression Meloncholy

Depression is state of deep anxiety.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita Depression Healthy Living Wisdom Of Lailah Gifty Akita Worry

If that made him heavy company sometimes, so be it. Who decreed that life was to be one long rowdy masquerade (punctuated with those little pets of melancholy indulged by a crowd who made a religion of their feelings)?

~ Howard Jacobson

Howard Jacobson Depression Secularism

Why did things have to get so backwards in our house? Since she couldn’t be the adult, I knew that it had to be me. But that didn’t stop me from hating it--from wishing it was just over. I’d give anything to be a kid again and not to be the responsible one in the house. It was like I was trapped in a horrible virtual-reality game, except there was no way for me to quit.

~ Elizabeth Langston

Elizabeth Langston Depression Despair Mental Illness

Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

J.r.r. Tolkien Anxiety Depression Emotion

My mother sat motionless at the kitchen table, her head cradled on one arm, the other extended toward her ever-present coffee mug. This was going to be another of her bad days. It was hard to pinpoint when I’d given up hope that she would pull herself together--that me being in charge would be a temporary thing. But too many months had passed with nothing changing, except somewhere along the way I’d stopped feeling sympathy for her. Or anger. It was easier to not feel anything where my mother was concerned because then I could never be let down.

~ Elizabeth Langston

Elizabeth Langston Depression Hopeless Mental Illness

All I can say to people who hate their mothers for giving birth to them is get the fuck out of your scaredy shells and kiss the world.

~ Jay Woodman

Jay Woodman Depressed Depression Depression Quotes Not Wanting To Be Here Scared Scared For Life Scared Of Being Scared To Death Shells

Some days I just want to climb inside my own skin and hide.

~ Tinaj. Richardson

Tinaj. Richardson Anxiety Autism Depression

During my PhD, I was depressed for eight-months, state of deep-worry.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita Depression Despair Pray Worry

When you're depressed and you think of killing yourself. Stop. If you're afraid to talk about your problems to someone, write down your thoughts, your feelings; let your frustrations go. Nobody has to see what you write but you. It's like writing to your good self until you find that version of you again. Don't give up on yourself. You're amazing.

~ Rochelle A.

Rochelle A. Depression Inspirational Survival

This was an adequate enough performance, as improvisations go. The only problem was that my entire education, everything I had ever been told or had told myself, insisted that the production was never meant to be improvised: I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was mean to know the plot, but all I knew was what I saw: flash pictures in variable sequence, images with no meaning beyond their temporary arrangement, not a movie but a cutting-room experience. In what would probably be the middle of my life I wanted still to believe in the narrative and in the narrative’s intelligibility, but to know that one could change the sense with every cut was to begin to perceive the experience as more electrical than ethical.

~ Joan Didion

Joan Didion Depression Life Mental Illness

One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.

~ Harold Holzer

Harold Holzer Assumptions Bias Depression Despondency Faith Panic Perspectives

When you're depressed, it's like you pick up one of those shields in a video game, but instead of protecting your life power, it blocks you from being able to receive any affirmation or encouragement.

~ Sammy Rhodes

Sammy Rhodes Depression

In retrospect, crappy chemicals in my brain were working overtime, driving me to destroy myself, like that thing that makes lemmings throw them¬selves over a cliff.

~ Felicia Day

Felicia Day Brain Depression Felicia Day Mental Illness Self Destruction

There’s nothing.Nothing to hold on to while the current takes me.Whatever I might have had until today, I’ve lost.I feel my love for her, swelling; bloating into something that’s about to explode, like an abscess that’s been allowed to rot for too long, but the pain drowns it so completely I know I’m never coming back out. This feeling, that you’re choking and that your body is underwater, immersed in the ocean, a dense flood that overpowers your breathing abilities, and your will to survive gets drowned right along with it. And as I’m drowning I see her face and hear her voice—and it doesn’t give me hope, it terrifies me. I’m terrified because I know she’s going to be the death of me. I’m terrified because I know I won’t be able to cope. I’m terrified because the darkness is the only true friend I’ve ever had and if it wants to embrace me I don’t have the power to make it stop.

~ Kady Hunt

Kady Hunt Depression Drama Psychological Self Harm Suicide Teen Fiction Young Adult Fiction

When they ask me why I jumped off the roof of my brother’s apartment building, I will tell them it was because I wanted the sky to mourn me.And because I wanted to know what it feels like to hit something so hard it shatters me into bits that they can never sew back together.

~ Kady Hunt

Kady Hunt Depression Literary Fiction Self Harm Suicide

Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness!

~ Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Depression Insignificance World Weariness

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all interest in romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance.

~ Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Depression Despondency Hope

To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

~ Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert Anxiety Depression Fatalism Mortality

He didn’t like having to start the fire again, that was the source of this small sadness. You get tired of these endless beginnings.

~ Denis Johnson

Denis Johnson Depression

There is a moral imperative to seeing mental health through the same lens we use for other pathologies or illnesses. Being sad or overwhelmed is normal, much as being short of breath after a run is normal. Both become abnormal when they happen with no apparent cause and are hard to stop. Those situations need medical attention.

~ Matthew Goldfinger

Matthew Goldfinger Depression Medicine Mental Health Mental Health Stigma

I want to say that yes, it was worth it; that I could suffer through pain and torture for her and go through a lot more than what Puck and his friends are capable of, and I can do it for all of eternity; suffer, until she realizes how much I love her. But she’s gone before I can say any of it. I wait till she’s left.And then I reach for my wallet.Hidden inside one of the flaps is a piece of paper that barely conceals a razorblade. Its frayed edges still have my blood on them. The blood is from the previous cuts I’ve made and I carry it around like a trophy, like Dexter carries around his victims’ blood on slides. I use that blade to give myself a cut and it starts bleeding. Right away, it feels as though the pressure that has been building inside me ever since that confrontation with Puck is lifted. I feel free again.

~ Kady Hunt

Kady Hunt Bullying Depression Love Self Harm Suicide Teen Fiction Teen Love Young Adult Fiction

There's no saving him from his deep hole. There's no saving me from my black slug.

~ Jasmine Warga

Jasmine Warga Black Slug Deep Hole Depression Sadness Suicide

There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face of facts a sinister violence of intention- that indefinable something which forces it upon the mind and the heart of a man, that this complication of accidents or these elemental furies are coming at him with a purpose of malice, with a strength beyond control, with an unbridled cruelty that means to tear out of him his hope and his fear, the pain of his fatigue and his longing for rest: which means to smash, to destroy, to annihilate all he has seen, known, loved, enjoyed, or hated; all that is priceless and necessary- the sunshine, the memories, the future,- which means to sweep the whole precious world utterly away from his sight by the simple and appalling act of taking his life.

~ Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad Death Where Is They Sting Depression Disaster Fear No Evil Fear Of Death Mortality Murder No Rhyme Or Reason Psalm 23 Reason Or Rhyme Senselessness Storms Valley Of The Shadow Of Death

Harrowing The plow has savaged this sweet field Misshapen clods of earth kicked up Rocks and twisted roots exposed to view Last year’s growth demolished by the blade. I have plowed my life this way Turned over a whole history Looking for the roots of what went wrong Until my face is ravaged, furrowed, scared. Enough. The job is done. Whatever’s been uprooted, let it be Seedbed for the growing that’s to come I plowed to unearth last year’s reasons— The farmer plows to plant a greening season.

~ Parker J. Palmer

Parker J. Palmer Depression Inspiration Poetry

You can't get out of life alive, so you may as well have a good time.

~ Les Brown

Les Brown Depression Life Lonliness Sadness

Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors.

~ John Updike

John Updike Depression Drinking Drunkenness Old People

In those moments, none of it matters. It’s like that stuff is happening to someone else because all you feel is dark inside, and that darkness just kind of takes over. You don’t even really think about what might happen to the people you leave behind, because all you can think about is yourself.

~ Jennifer Niven

Jennifer Niven Darkness Depression Suicide

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

~ Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Depression Despondency Hopelessness Perspective

Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita Depression Faith Fear Inspirational Worry

the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Geraldine Brooks Anxiety Depression

Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose.

~ Hugh Howey

Hugh Howey Depression Emotional Healing Ptsd
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