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    C.S. Lewis
    “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
    tags: depression, pain
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “He: What’s the matter with you?

    Me: Nothing.

    Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries
    tags: death, depression
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  • #3
    “Everyone's a liar. Everyone I've ever known.”
    ― Julie Ann Peters
    tags: depression, sad, suicide
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  • #4
    Paul Fussell
    “i find nothing more depressing than optimism.”
    ― Paul Fussell
    tags: depression, humor, optimism, oxymoron
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  • #5
    Sherman Alexie
    “I learned how to stop crying.
    I learned how to hide inside of myself.
    I learned how to be somebody else.
    I learned how to be cold and numb.”
    ― Sherman Alexie, Flight
    tags: cold, hiding, numb, others, tears
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  • #6
    Toba Beta
    “Be careful with too much joy,
    it can make you numb in life.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: careful, numb, too-much-joy
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  • #7
    Bethany Griffin
    “I’ve perfected the art of the fake smile. It’s not so difficult when you are completely numb.”
    ― Bethany Griffin, Masque of the Red Death
    tags: fake, numb, pain
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  • #8
    Sarah Dessen
    “There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. ”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
    tags: convince, emptiness, empty, gone, obvious, try, yourself
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  • #9
    Judy Garland
    “In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.”
    ― Judy Garland
    tags: depression, loneliness, love, want, wanting
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  • #10
    Carrie Fisher
    “Mom brought me some peanut butter cookies and a biography of Judy Garland. She told me she thought my problem was that I was too impatient, my fuse was too short, that I was only interested in instant gratification. I said, “Instant gratification takes too long.” The glib martyr.”
    ― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
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  • #11
    Judy Garland
    “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
    ― Judy Garland
    tags: living-life
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  • #12
    Carrie Fisher
    “Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.”
    ― Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
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  • #13
    Carrie Fisher
    “You're not really famous until youre a Pez dispenser.”
    ― Carrie Fisher
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  • #14
    Aleksandar Hemon
    “Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever. ”
    ― Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
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  • #15
    Bram Stoker
    “Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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  • #16
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
    tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness
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  • #17
    Kim Stanley Robinson
    “It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”
    ― Kim Stanley Robinson, Icehenge
    tags: anxiety, insomnia, restlessness, sadness, sleep
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  • #18
    C.S. Lewis
    “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

    At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
    tags: afraid, fear, grief, loneliness, loss, mourning, restlessness
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  • #19
    Patrick deWitt
    “The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.”
    ― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
    tags: insomnia, restless, restlessness, sleeplessness
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  • #20
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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  • #21
    C.S. Lewis
    “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: christianity, god, religion
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  • #22
    C.S. Lewis
    “God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god-religion-happiness
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  • #23
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
    ― Saint Augustine
    tags: morality, right-and-wrong
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  • #24
    Augustine of Hippo
    “I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
    ― Saint Augustine
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
    ― Saint Augustine
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  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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  • #27
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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  • #29
    Florence Welch
    “Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.”
    ― Florence Welch
    tags: florence, florence-welch, love, music
    84 likes



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