I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say “This is it”? My depression is a harassed feeling. I’m looking: but that’s not it — that’s not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?

Virginia Woolf

Mots clés life depression

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My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should not have known what to ask. If in moments of intoxication I felt something which, though not a wish, was a habit left by former wishes, in sober moments I knew this to be a delusion and that there was really nothing to wish for. I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless.

Leo Tolstoy

Mots clés truth inspirational-quotes meaning depression desire

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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading – treading – till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through –

And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum –
Kept beating – beating – till I thought
My Mind was going numb –

And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space – began to toll,

As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race
Wrecked, solitary, here –

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down –
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing – then –

Emily Dickinson

Mots clés pain elegy emily-dickinson brain depression funeral

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Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

Victor Hugo

Mots clés happiness depression

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Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Victor Hugo

Mots clés grief depression

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A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.

Jane McGonigal

Mots clés psychology video-games depression gameplay

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It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Mots clés depression speak valentines-day laurie-halse-anderson

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Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

Ellis Peters

Mots clés friends people enemies depression

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It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.

It made me tired just to think of it.

Sylvia Plath

Mots clés sadness depression

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The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Mots clés sadness depression

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