He felt the guilt of inaction, of simply waiting while his life went to waste. No one was worth the gift of his life, no one could possibly be worth that. It belonged to him...

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I’m afraid I’ll stutter.

We are far, far stronger than our pain

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don’t want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus – a pustule of emotion that explodes into a...

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside...

Time’ is the most threatening four letter word.

God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.

Never bullshit a bullshitter.

When you know truly know just how much God loves you it won’t matter when others don’t and if you know truly know God accepts you it won’t matter when others won’t

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

Anyone who’s happy in a world this fucked-up has some serious psychological issues. You think I’m crazy because I see things as they are. You’d rather put on Disneyland goggles and watch TV and pretend...

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because...

Cursed is the man who ceaselessly loves without fear – He will inevitably fall in love with the devil.

At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened to us and who we are today. If you have a hard time...

I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned upand be utterly empty.How free it is, you have no idea how free – The peacefulness is so big it dazes...

I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself – simply an urge...

Finally, there was the impediment of his nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt at the roots, the boy was disabled by something which we...

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.

Make sure that the your remote control always lies with your own self and not in someone else’s hands.

I feel no peace, I feel nothing. I think I will feel nothing forever.

There is a difference between saying goodbye and letting go. Goodbye is not permanent. You can meet years later as old friends and share what happened in your life. You can smile and laugh about...

The soulless have no need of melancholia

Better live than dead.

And with that, I’m going to crawl into bed and try to erase all that has happened today.

I walked to Mairangi Bay beach, day after day, seeking companionship in the roar of the ocean, and contemplating the shipwreck of my life. There, in that isolated wilderness, amidst the screaming gulls, and consistent...

He stepped off the pavement like a man jumping off a bridge, as calm as a swimmer with an ocean out below. Lucy had known what he was going to do the instant their eyes...

The world always seems like it’s going to hell when you’re depressed. And, of course, it always is going to hell in some way. That’s what makes it so hard to tell the difference between...

Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron. It is too much grief at too slight a cause, pain that takes over from the other emotions...

I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations...

Slowly, my feelings started to shrivel up. The few that managed to survive the constant beatings staggered around like wounded baby deer, just biding their time until they could die and join all the other...

When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems...

The decision to be positive is not one that disregards or belittles the sadness that exists. It is rather a conscious choice to focus on the good and to cultivate happiness–genuine happiness. Happiness is not...

You used to give yourself over to endless sessions of doubt. You would claim to be an expert on the subject. But doubting would tire you so much that you would end up doubting doubt...

‘Not spoiling’ a child means trying to break that child’s spirit.

Sylvia had begun her month in New York with princessy pomp and fanfare….Her departure on June 27 was entirely different. She left New York shaken, depleted, and utterly alone.

They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

Nothing succeeds like success. Kill me now.

I thought about suicide all the time, but it seemed toomuch effort, swallowing all those pills or jumping off things. If I’d lived out in the country I would have found a quiet stretch of...

Listen, Harper. I realize how hard this is for you.”A flash of anger heats up in my chest. She doesn’t understand. She can’t. If she did, she’d leave me alone instead of trying to force...

how depression challenged a president and fueled his greatness.

Growing up, I had a lot of dreams. I was depressed and I slept all the time.

What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside; it’s about the inside.

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.

Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was become a matter of indifference to her, whether she went or not: and she prepared...

There are moments when we all step away from the light…

If you know that I am genius Then know that you made me genius Everyone don’t accept me as genius Because they aren’t genius to belief me as genius

Almost everyone is overconfident–except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.