“I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim…” – A quote by whom?
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- Frida Kahlo
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“Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved’s hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?” – A quote by whom?
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- Sarah Ruhl
“Very jaded and tired and depressed and cross…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.” – A quote by whom?
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- Virginia Woolf
“When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.” – A quote by whom?
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- Yann Martel
“It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.” – A quote by whom?
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- Matt Haig
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.” – A quote by whom?
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- James Branch Cabell
“You think you deserve that pain but you don’t.” – A quote by whom?
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- Richard Swersey
“I am in that temper that if I were underwater I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” – A quote by whom?
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- John Keats
“Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.” – A quote by whom?
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- Albert Camus
“I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.” – A quote by whom?
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- Ursula K. Le Guin
“My mental health problems are real and they are valid. I will not judge myself for the bad days when I can barely get out of bed. I will not make myself feel worse because someone else appears to be handling their mental illness better than I am handling mine. Recovery is not a competition.” – A quote by whom?
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- Matt Joseph Diaz
“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.” – A quote by whom?
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- Susan Sontag
“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.” – A quote by whom?
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- Aristotle
“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.” – A quote by whom?
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- Chuck Palahniuk
“Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.” – A quote by whom?
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- Philip K. Dick
“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking ” – A quote by whom?
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- Elizabeth Wurtzel
“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known – no wonder, then, that I return the love.” – A quote by whom?
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- Soren Kierkegaard
“Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.” – A quote by whom?
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- J.K. Rowling
“You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.” – A quote by whom?
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- David Mitchell
“Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there’s so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.” – A quote by whom?
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- Ned Vizzini