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The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources…
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I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to…
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But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is…
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It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was…
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.…
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When I am high I couldn't worry about money of I tried. So I don't. The money will come from from somewhere;…
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Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving…
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I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that…
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I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to…
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Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had…
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Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and…
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Anyone who suggests that coming back from suicidal despair is a straightforward journey has never taken it.
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The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring…
— Winston Churchill
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Bollocks have never frightened me. I'll eat a bollock any time.
— Germaine Greer
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What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible,…
— Osamu Dazai
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I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.
— John Kennedy Toole
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Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up…
— Annie Dillard
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And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I…
— Arthur Machen
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And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano…
— Amy Tan
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And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.
— Charles Bukowski
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I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy…
— Charles Bukowski
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I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with…
— Jack Kerouac
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