“Things come that we never would have predicted for ourselves or even guessed at. And yet they change us for ever.”
― Circling the Sun
― Circling the Sun
“Denys understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.”
― Circling the Sun
― Circling the Sun
“Depression extinguishes our purpose in life—the purpose of anything in our lives—making it quite literally impossible to handle anything. Every day and hour and minute is an obstacle course of things we are supposed to handle; most people do so without any effort, but we can’t even see around the first corner. And so we collapse. Or we sleep for days on end. Or we yell at people who don’t deserve it.”
― The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
― The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
“That’s another thing that people don’t understand about depression: we don’t want to take a shower, we don’t know why we feel this way, and even if we did, it wouldn’t make us stop feeling this way. We have lost all interest in doing anything, especially anything that once brought us joy—because that thing will not bring us joy, and we can’t bear the meaning of that. It would be too much. It would crush us.”
― The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
― The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live
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