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“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

“The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.”
― Alain De Botton

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
― Terry Pratchett

“Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.”
― Terry Pratchett, Eric

“A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.”
― Dante

“Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.”
― Mother Teresa

“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
― Goethe

“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”
― Cameron Dokey

“The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb. ”
― Elizabeth Scott, Love You Hate You Miss You

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“...if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through...”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Radical Sanity : Commonsense Advice for Uncommon Women

“The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job. ”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

“Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“But no one came. Because no one ever does.”
― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.”
― Oscar Levant

“Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.”
― Christopher Moore, Bite Me

“. . . 'Depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.”
― Elliott Smith

“Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Perspective is the cure for depression.”
― Bono

“I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“Depression is the price we pay for our imagination and intelligence.”
― Stefan Klein, The Science of Happiness: How Our Brains Make Us Happy - and What We Can Do to Get Happier

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road