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“But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression” Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“While I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being crazy, living my life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.” Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:” William Shakespeare, Richard II
“If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“He woke the robot up because even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can’t even see it,...” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

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