depressed

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1b0e784	The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.	suicide pain suffering depression prevention awareness depressed mental-illness psychology mental-health	William Styron
3b0cf47	God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.	sacrifice love beautiful-disaster broken depressed sad	Cassandra Clare
cdd802c	I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.	depression life philosophy dickens sydney-carton charles-dickens self-loathing alone self-worth depressed lonely sad	Charles Dickens
2ef88c0	my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.	depression dislocation toxic panic depressed mental-illness	William Styron
9389b13	I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.	depressed hopeless	Beatrice Sparks
16cdc3d	it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been able to confidently depict for their friends and loved ones (even their physicians) some of the actual dimensions of their torment, and perhaps elicit a comprehension that has been generally lacking; such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.	understanding sympathy pain depression sufferer torment health depressed mental-illness	William Styron
bf865e1	He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.	solitude thoughts thinking depressed scared	Douglas Adams
be1fc82	A disruption of the circadian cycle--the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life--seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day's pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.	depression insomnia rhythm intensity health depressed relief mental-illness psychology mental-health	William Styron
0ba5734	At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts	reading depression vacuum facts depressed	William Styron
7290a2d	And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine.	fear broken alone consequences depressed lonely trauma scared	Sarah J. Maas
5b4c1da	Those images were the world, and it stewed in her as she sat with the lovely books and their manicured titles. It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don't make me happy. Please, don't fill me up and let me think something good can come from any of this. Look at my bruises. Look at this graze. Do you see the graze inside me? Do you see it before your very eyes, eroding me? I don't want to hope for anything anymore.	depressed	Markus Zusak
eb84991	depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases.	depression grave-disease remedy distress victim help disease depressed mental-illness	William Styron
28af5f2	I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort.	iris-murdoch world-weary suicidal tired depressed	Iris Murdoch
b9a97cb	"Sometimes I felt I would die by wishing it when I went to sleep but I always woke up again and found I was still there. Every morning finding I'm still me, that's hell." "Well, get out of hell then! The gate's open and I'm holding it!" "I can't. I'm hell, myself."	suffering the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch dialogue suicidal trapped depressed release hell	Iris Murdoch
3fff438	"Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. "...Callo, I'm so sorry that your life ended up this way," she sighs as she gets out of her side of the car, her feet burning from the cold as her high heels sink into the fallen snow. "Aren't you scared?" "I'm you, Geraldine... I fell into the same trap as you, anyway," Callo answers. His large eyes are shining with tears, but he doesn't seem afraid in the least. "...The dead don't feel anything, you know... not even guilt or regret. So, what is there to be afraid of?"	depression emotion fear death friendship apology forlornness usurer high-heels forlorn purse revolver lonliness friend trap gun tears regret kill depressed dead guilt die eyes dying mental-illness	Rebecca McNutt
746d349	When he's cheerful his tongue runs away with him, and he's depressed he can be unkind. So it's common sense not to let him into every are of your life.	depressed	Julian Barnes
948182b	"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic," said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."	friendship pessamistic disappointed never worst expect depressed sad	Rebecca McNutt

1b0e784

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

suicide pain suffering depression prevention awareness depressed mental-illness psychology mental-health

William Styron

3b0cf47

God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.

sacrifice love beautiful-disaster broken depressed sad

Cassandra Clare

cdd802c

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

depression life philosophy dickens sydney-carton charles-dickens self-loathing alone self-worth depressed lonely sad

Charles Dickens

2ef88c0

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

depression dislocation toxic panic depressed mental-illness

William Styron

9389b13

I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.

depressed hopeless

Beatrice Sparks

16cdc3d

it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been able to confidently depict for their friends and loved ones (even their physicians) some of the actual dimensions of their torment, and perhaps elicit a comprehension that has been generally lacking; such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.

understanding sympathy pain depression sufferer torment health depressed mental-illness

William Styron

bf865e1

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

solitude thoughts thinking depressed scared

Douglas Adams

be1fc82

A disruption of the circadian cycle--the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life--seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day's pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

depression insomnia rhythm intensity health depressed relief mental-illness psychology mental-health

William Styron

0ba5734

At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts

reading depression vacuum facts depressed

William Styron

7290a2d

And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine.

fear broken alone consequences depressed lonely trauma scared

Sarah J. Maas

5b4c1da

Those images were the world, and it stewed in her as she sat with the lovely books and their manicured titles. It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words. You bastards, she thought. You lovely bastards. Don't make me happy. Please, don't fill me up and let me think something good can come from any of this. Look at my bruises. Look at this graze. Do you see the graze inside me? Do you see it before your very eyes, eroding me? I don't want to hope for anything anymore.

depressed

Markus Zusak

eb84991

depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases.

depression grave-disease remedy distress victim help disease depressed mental-illness

William Styron

28af5f2

I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort.

iris-murdoch world-weary suicidal tired depressed

Iris Murdoch

b9a97cb

"Sometimes I felt I would die by wishing it when I went to sleep but I always woke up again and found I was still there. Every morning finding I'm still me, that's hell." "Well, get out of hell then! The gate's open and I'm holding it!" "I can't. I'm hell, myself."

suffering the-sea-the-sea iris-murdoch dialogue suicidal trapped depressed release hell

Iris Murdoch

3fff438

"Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. "...Callo, I'm so sorry that your life ended up this way," she sighs as she gets out of her side of the car, her feet burning from the cold as her high heels sink into the fallen snow. "Aren't you scared?" "I'm you, Geraldine... I fell into the same trap as you, anyway," Callo answers. His large eyes are shining with tears, but he doesn't seem afraid in the least. "...The dead don't feel anything, you know... not even guilt or regret. So, what is there to be afraid of?"

depression emotion fear death friendship apology forlornness usurer high-heels forlorn purse revolver lonliness friend trap gun tears regret kill depressed dead guilt die eyes dying mental-illness

Rebecca McNutt

746d349

When he's cheerful his tongue runs away with him, and he's depressed he can be unkind. So it's common sense not to let him into every are of your life.

depressed

Julian Barnes

948182b

"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic," said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."

friendship pessamistic disappointed never worst expect depressed sad

Rebecca McNutt