"One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness."
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"Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."
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"Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul."
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"Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer."
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"Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure."
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"You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound."
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"In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope-nothing of man."
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"I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me."
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"It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal."
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"Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits."
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"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
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"If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease."
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"There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer."
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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."
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"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."
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"Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs. If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick, they cannot be good beliefs."
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"For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy."
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"... my mind lay limp in an empty world."
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"If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman."
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"I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on me it is accompanied by a feverish reaching out to my friends. After its over I wince and wither."
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