“ The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
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“ It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope. ”
- Leigh Hunt- Copy
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“ Depression is melancholy minus its charms — the animation, the fits. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am. ”
- John Hunter- Copy
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“ Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ”
- Dylan Thomas- Copy
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“ Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Courts are not immune to the sadness and tragedy that a case represents. ”
- Jeffrey Miller- Copy
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“ This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse like bride. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ If depression had settled like a blanket on the minds of most players. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. ”
- Pythagoras- Copy
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“ The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. ”
- Jim Rohn- Copy
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“ Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ”
- John Gay- Copy
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“ Never frown...even when you're sad you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, But bear-like I must fight the course. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do. ”
- Stevie Wonder- Copy
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“ Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. ”
- Chuck Palahniuk- Copy
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“ Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness. ”
- Benjamin L. Hooks- Copy
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“ We used to think the rate of postpartum depression was 9 percent. We now know it is much higher than that. ”
- John Gottman- Copy
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