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“Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:” William Shakespeare, “Richard II” - 1595

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“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” - 1930

“Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“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” - 2012

“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” - 1998

“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” - 1988

“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!” - 1989

“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” - 1996

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