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Depression
"Depression is anger without enthusiasm"
-Anon.
Depression moods lead,almost invariably,to accidents. But,when they occur,our mood changes again,since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake,and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state,out of consideration for this strange power.
-Jean Baudrillard
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]
There exists,at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune,a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle,waged partly by cunning and partly by violence,at once sick and ferocious,in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.
-Victor Hugo
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it,gauge it,sound it out and descend into it.
-Cesare Pavese
Depression is rage spread thin.
-George Santayana,[attributed]
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'.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air,growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory…Grief is a humble angel who leaves you with strong,clear thoughts and a sense of your own depth. Depression is a demon who leaves you appalled.
-Andrew Solomon,The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed,but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses,near paralysis,psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately,the body is affected and feels sapped,drained.
-William Styron
"In depression...faith in deliverance,in ultimate restoration,is absent. The pain is unrelenting,and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no rememdy will come,not in a day,an hour,a month,or a minute. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul."
-William Styron,from 'Darkness Visible; A Memoir of Madness',1990
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience,the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
-William Styron.
-Anon.
Depression moods lead,almost invariably,to accidents. But,when they occur,our mood changes again,since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake,and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state,out of consideration for this strange power.
-Jean Baudrillard
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]
There exists,at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune,a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle,waged partly by cunning and partly by violence,at once sick and ferocious,in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.
-Victor Hugo
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it,gauge it,sound it out and descend into it.
-Cesare Pavese
Depression is rage spread thin.
-George Santayana,[attributed]
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'.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air,growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory…Grief is a humble angel who leaves you with strong,clear thoughts and a sense of your own depth. Depression is a demon who leaves you appalled.
-Andrew Solomon,The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed,but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses,near paralysis,psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately,the body is affected and feels sapped,drained.
-William Styron
"In depression...faith in deliverance,in ultimate restoration,is absent. The pain is unrelenting,and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no rememdy will come,not in a day,an hour,a month,or a minute. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul."
-William Styron,from 'Darkness Visible; A Memoir of Madness',1990
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience,the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
-William Styron.