Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I’ve always been like that; I don’t smile in any pictures.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

I’m perpetually lonely.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

The emotions in a song – the anger, aggression – have got to be legitimate.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

I have no human feelings.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

To live is to think.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I’d have killed myself.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.