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“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
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“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards any small chink of light that I thought I saw ... As the years went by, it did not get lighter but I became accustomed to the dark.”
― The Naked Civil Servant
― The Naked Civil Servant
“The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.”
― Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
― Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
“We seek to escape the dark cave of a despondent mind by either dulling oneself mentally or through imaginative acts. One form of escapism is daydreaming.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all interest in romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beingsâ€� behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first shockwaves of the bomb are not sin. The real danger is yielding to them. Giving in. Putting up no spiritual fight. And the root of that surrender is unbelief - a failure to fight for faith in future grace. A failure to cherish all that God promises to be for us in Jesus.”
― Future Grace
― Future Grace
“It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the pleasure and the business of my life; but faith was weak, and passion was too strong.”
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“In order to maintain a modicum of sanity needed to continue the vigorous fight for survival, we busy ourselves with repressing and then remembering that our ultimate fate is death. Living vigorously necessitates sparring with the forerunning concept of death. At times, it seems necessary to refuse acknowledging the tragic brevity of our existence while we greedily chase our innermost dream of experiencing and voicing the ecstasy of life. We dual constantly between the conflicting emotions wrung from expressing our enthusiasm for life, and capitulating to the dire ramifications of growing despondency given our keen awareness that we are operating under a death sentence. We begin in earnest and gladness, but we must be ever vigilant to avoid unraveling in despondency and madness.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls
“No matter how hard I tried, my legs had turned to stone and night fell upon me that instant. No stars were out. No moon, just blackness...”
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“Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.”
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“Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.”
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“In fact the original memory of Miss Blaides returned to me one morning when I was sitting in my cream distempered, strip-lighted, bare, sanitary, glaring, forlorn little cell at the Studio. In that place it was possible to know deep despondency.”
― A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement
― A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement
“Mrs Maclintick's dissatisfaction with life had probably reached so advanced a stage that she was unable to approach any new event amiably, even when proffered temporary alleviation of her own chronic spleen.”
― A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement
― A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement
“Despondency, is not a virtue; I believe it is a vice. I am heartily ashamed of myself for falling into it, but I am sure there is no remedy for it like a holy faith in God.”
― Lectures to My Students
― Lectures to My Students
“Who hasn’t succumbed to a hopeless feeling more powerful than all the strength one might possibly muster, wondering how many first steps will have to be taken, how many actions performed and words spoken, how many labyrinths will have to be negotiated in order, finally, to reach the moment at which reality begins to happen.”
― Shantytown
― Shantytown
“In a Gnostic work of the second century of our era, we read: 'The prayer of a melancholy man will never have the strength to rise unto God.'...Since man prays only in despondency, we may deduce that no prayer has ever reached its destination.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Sprout looked through the wide-open door,
focusing on the world outside. It had been a while
since she’d had an appetite. She had no desire to
lay another egg. Her heart emptied of feeling
every time the farmer’s wife took her eggs. The
pride she felt when she laid one was replaced by
sadness. She was exhausted after a full year of
this. She couldn’t so much as touch her own eggs,
not even with the tip of her foot. And she didn’t
know what happened to them after the farmer’s
wife carried them in her basket out of the coop.”
― The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
focusing on the world outside. It had been a while
since she’d had an appetite. She had no desire to
lay another egg. Her heart emptied of feeling
every time the farmer’s wife took her eggs. The
pride she felt when she laid one was replaced by
sadness. She was exhausted after a full year of
this. She couldn’t so much as touch her own eggs,
not even with the tip of her foot. And she didn’t
know what happened to them after the farmer’s
wife carried them in her basket out of the coop.”
― The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
“Can I see another's woe,
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
And not seek for kind relief?”
― Songs of Innocence and Experience
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
And not seek for kind relief?”
― Songs of Innocence and Experience
“Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.”
― Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
― Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
“One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.”
― Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
― Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
“A knock on my office door interrupted the despondency of my broodings. “Come in!â€� I called, removing the countenance I currently wore for a friendlier one.”
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“... alternating between anticipation and despondency. That has physical consequences.”
― The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
― The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
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