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"I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing."
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"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."

"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."

"We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression."

"Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low."

"Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in."

"Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been."

"I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff."

"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."

"It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered."

"If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help."
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"It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by, and I know right well that any good that intermixed itself with my apprenticeship came of plain contented Joe, and not of restlessly aspiring discontented me."

"She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea."

"Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!"

"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society."

"He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means."

"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine."

"Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy."

"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day."
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