"I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things.Only end them."

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"I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things.Only end them."

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"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Depression, Family, Isolation, Silence

"It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... If a person in physical pain has a hard time attending to anything except that pain, a clinically depressed person cannot even perceive any other person or thing as independent of the universal pain that is digesting her cell by cell."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Depression, Pain, Isolation, Perception

"Though the darkness sometimes lifted just enough so I could construe my surroundings, familiar shapes solidifying like bedroom furniture at dawn, my relief was never more than temporary because somehow the full morning never came, things always went black before I could orient myself and there I was again with ink poured in my eyes, guttering around in the dark."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Depression, Darkness, Fear, Struggle

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

Carroll O'Connor, American Actor

Depression,

"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Depression, Attachment, Darkness, Honesty

"Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst."

Ray Brown, American Musician

Depression,

"Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States."

Martin Denny, American Musician

Depression, Parents, Pretty, states

"I lived in a really dark place. I wasn't safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference."

Tahereh Mafi, Iranian Author

Depression, Despair, Darkness, Mental Health, Awareness

"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."

Albert Ellis, American Psychologist

Depression,

"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on."

Bob Geldof, Irish Actor

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"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

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"If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can."

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"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."

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"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."

"It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... If a person in physical pain has a hard time attending to anything except that pain, a clinically depressed person cannot even perceive any other person or thing as independent of the universal pain that is digesting her cell by cell."

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

"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love."

"Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst."

"Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States."

"I lived in a really dark place. I wasn't safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was already dead because I couldn't even tell the difference."

"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."

"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on."

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"By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself."

"You gain power by pretending to be weak."

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."

"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing."