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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.” – A quote by whom?
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- Stephen Fry
“The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever.” – A quote by whom?
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- Nina LaCour
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” – A quote by whom?
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- Laurell K. Hamilton
“I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are evil.” – A quote by whom?
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- J.R.R. Tolkien
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” – A quote by whom?
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- Oscar Wilde
“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.” – A quote by whom?
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- Elizabeth Wurtzel
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” – A quote by whom?
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- Lao Tzu
“Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.” – A quote by whom?
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- Simone de Beauvoir
“It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn’t even think. That’s the whole trouble. When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think.” – A quote by whom?
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- J.D. Salinger
“Need a whole new syntax for fatigue on days like this” – A quote by whom?
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- David Foster Wallace
“You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.” – A quote by whom?
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- Robin Williams
“I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim…” – A quote by whom?
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- Frida Kahlo
“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