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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing…

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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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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because,… — Victor Borge
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. — Wyndham Lewis
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it. — Murray Rothbard
I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all… — Coretta Scott King
A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives. — Leon Brown
A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is… — Ronald Reagan
I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything… — Lynda Bellingham
Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence. — Jim Babka
A visionary thrives under all conditions. — Esther Hicks
A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art. — Unknown Author

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