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I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when…

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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who…
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,…
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that…
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out…
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or…
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that…
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you…
Having always imagined myself in a fairly slim minority, I suddenly saw that I was in a vast company. Difference unites us.…
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply…
The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on…
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of…

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All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of… — William Butler Yeats
The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness… — Ross Macdonald
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing. — Matthieu Ricard
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the… — Arthur C. Clarke
Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet… — William Maxwell
I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking… — Andrew Solomon
Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they… — Paula Rego
... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then… — Emily Dickinson
If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak… — Donna Tartt
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. — Tom Robbins
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of… — Jack Kerouac
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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