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"Human existence must be a kind of error...it may be said of it, 'it is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens'." - Schopenhauer.
"He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan." - Alain de Botton (on Arthur Schopenhauer)."The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time." - Luis Bunuel
"It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent" - Hannah Arendt.
"Once we have resolved only to to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and truthfully, without treating conventions, vanities and ceremonials as anything other than props of polite society, we will have to live more or less on our own." - Chamfort.
"When all the prerogatives of ... fortune have been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a great career and feel that he has been called to no common destiny. But this is a delusion which experience quickly corrects." -- de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
"The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown.
"It was depressing, ... I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck." - Clyde Tombaugh
"I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block." - Joanne Woodward
"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious." - Horace.
"Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression." - Karen Horney, initially a devoted follower of Freud who later believed that social factors were of more importance in curing neurosis than the biological and oedipal factors that Freud believed in.
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on ... ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny." - Albert Ellis, founder of REBT, one of the few 'talking therapies' that has been shown to be effective against depression by scientific experimentation.
"Politically, things can be done, genocide can be prevented and individuals can learn from history. Fundamentally, though, humankind is pretty crap." - Lindsey Hilsum.
"The child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities." - Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1784
"The earth swarms with people who are not worth talking to" - Voltaire.
"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing reality" - Oscar Wilde,
"It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night." - Chamfort
"I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients" - Oscar Levant.
"What I dream of is an art of balance and purity, of serenity devoid of troubling and depressing subject matter" - Henri Matisse
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