

“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”
― It's Kind of a Funny Story
― It's Kind of a Funny Story

“we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.”
― Studies in Pessimism
― Studies in Pessimism

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
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“No little part of the torment of existence lies in this, that Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip. If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the misery of boredom.”
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
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