This is my “depressed stance.” When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this.
Depressed Quotes
And then a Plank in reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down – And hit a World, at every plunge.
Much Madness is divinest Sense – To a discerning Eye – Much Sense – the starkest Madness.
When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how […]
‘Tis a Dutch proverb, that “paint costs nothing,” such are its preserving qualities in damp climates. Well, sunshine costs less, yet is finer pigment. And so of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains. The latent heat of an ounce of wood or stone is inexhaustible. You […]
There’s nothing more mischievous than moping along and getting into the blue devils! Nothing more likely to drive a man to suicide or matrimony, or some infernal entanglement even worse! (“Ralph Wilton’s Weird”)
He’s turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he’s miserable and depressed.
God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies grey and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with […]
John is a physician, and perhaps – (I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind) – perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick! And what can one […]
