Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.
J. K. RowlingRead
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Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Write your Sad times in Sand,_x000D_ _x000D_ Write your Good times in Stone.
Sadness, seriousness are parts of a psychologically sick man - they need causes. So when you are feeling happy, don't start asking, "Why am I happy?" When you are feeling sad ask why you are sad. But strangely, it has become conventional to our minds that when we are sad we accept it as if it is our nature. And when we are joyous even we are surprised; deep inside we even start worrying: "What is happening to me?"
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.
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