Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
