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Depression quotes

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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

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