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• The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

  William Styron

  Zero, Psychics, Storm

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Acceptance, Compassion

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass

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• I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

  Paul Fussell

  Depressing, Optimistic, Optimism

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• It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

  Nick Hornby

  Brilliant, Being Depressed, Fidelity

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.94, Penguin

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• All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  "The Story of Walt Disney". Book by Diane Disney Miller, Pete Martin, 1957.

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• When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.)

  R. C. Sproul

  Garden, Feelings, Guilt

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• because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.

  Sylvia Plath

  Glasses, Air, Paris

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.94, Hamilton Books

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• I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

  Michael Ian Black

  Zero, Thinking, Naps

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

  Stuart Symington

  New York, Years, Fifty

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• That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Depressing, Artist, Literature

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

  Byron Katie

  Hurt, Pain, Lying

  Byron Katie (2007). “Question Your Thinking, Change The World”, p.177, Hay House, Inc

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• Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Strong, Brave

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.186, Zondervan

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• If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

  Stephen Fry

  Weather, Being Depressed, Lethargy

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• It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Funny, Wisdom

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• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  Fiona Apple

  People, Crowds, Mental Health

  "POP QUIZ - Q & A With Fiona Apple". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 7, 1997.

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• I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from? The desire to destroy myself? This last depression had scared me. It had come on so quickly, not like the gradual woolgathering in my brain I had known before.

  Betsy Lerner

  Brain, Desire, Littles

  Betsy Lerner (2004). “Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.

  Winslow Homer

  Stupid, People, Use

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• Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.

  Joko Beck

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Thinking, Might, Ifs

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• What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

  Stephen King

  Reality, Glasses, Mental Illness

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Art, Healing, Self

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• We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

  Jerry Hall

  Pain, Knows

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• We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Different, World, Finance

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• I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

  Agatha Christie

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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