'The truth is that writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.' Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
'I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn'. Anne Frank
'Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to Bach's B Minor Mass?' Michael Torke, composer (note to self: find out what he's on about).
'Time equals Life. Therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.' Alan Lakein, time management guru
'Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?' The Matrix
'The idea of throwing away my depression, of having to create a whole way of living and being, of having to create a whole new personality that did not contain misery as its leitmotif was daunting. Now, with the help of a biochemical cure, it was going to go away.' Elizabeth Wurztel, Prozac Nation.
'How heavy the days are. There is not a fire that can warm me, nor a sun to laugh with me.' Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
'I am a realist - I expect miracles.' Wayne Dyer, counsellor
'Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter, grief, despondency and lamentations.' Hippocrates
'Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.'
Sylvia Plath
'Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.' Ralph Waldo Emerson (why is it so difficult for me to get what he is saying?)
'A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.' Charles Franklin Kettering, American inventor (it's too preachy for my taste, but might come in handy one day)
'Any day is a good day to die, but no day is a good day to take your life.' Jason, teenager (um, okay, if you say so)
'Let food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.' Hippocrates
'Your theory is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true.' Neils Bohr
'You'd worry less about what others thought of you if you knew how seldom they do it.' Olin Miller, writer
'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.' Charlie Brown (aw bless!)
'Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.' William Shakespeare, King Henry the Eighth
'I exercise strong self-control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.' W.C. Fields (ha ha - hilarious!)
'The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.' Chinese proverb (and one I should adhere to, being the wet blanket I am)
'Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.' Carl Jung (take that, suckers!)
'People are so busy lengthening their lives with exercise they don't have time to live them.' Johnathan Miller (such comfort in being a couch potato who reads Plato, eh Fati?)
'Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.' Theodore Dreiser, author
'I measure every grief I meet
With analytic eyes;
I wonder if it weighs like mine,
Or has an easier size.'
Emily Dickinson
'Measured my thing. It was eleven centimetres.' The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian was a misunderstood, occasionally melancholic teenager who understood the importance of measuring) What a classic!
'I feel lower than a worm's tit' (I never imagined that, one day, I'd acknowledge feeling like this. It's so fricking hilarious! Do worms even have tits?)
'In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touch starved.' Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Senses (In other words: hug me, dammit!)
'Friends are God's apology for relatives.' Hugh Kingsmill, British poet
'In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.' Soren Kierkegaard
'It is never too late to be what you might have been.' George Eliot
'I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.' Marie Corelli, novelist
'Life's not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.' George Bernard Shaw
'I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn'. Anne Frank
'Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to Bach's B Minor Mass?' Michael Torke, composer (note to self: find out what he's on about).
'Time equals Life. Therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.' Alan Lakein, time management guru
'Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?' The Matrix
'The idea of throwing away my depression, of having to create a whole way of living and being, of having to create a whole new personality that did not contain misery as its leitmotif was daunting. Now, with the help of a biochemical cure, it was going to go away.' Elizabeth Wurztel, Prozac Nation.
'How heavy the days are. There is not a fire that can warm me, nor a sun to laugh with me.' Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
'I am a realist - I expect miracles.' Wayne Dyer, counsellor
'Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter, grief, despondency and lamentations.' Hippocrates
'Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.'
Sylvia Plath
'Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.' Ralph Waldo Emerson (why is it so difficult for me to get what he is saying?)
'A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.' Charles Franklin Kettering, American inventor (it's too preachy for my taste, but might come in handy one day)
'Any day is a good day to die, but no day is a good day to take your life.' Jason, teenager (um, okay, if you say so)
'Let food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.' Hippocrates
'Your theory is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true.' Neils Bohr
'You'd worry less about what others thought of you if you knew how seldom they do it.' Olin Miller, writer
'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.' Charlie Brown (aw bless!)
'Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.' William Shakespeare, King Henry the Eighth
'I exercise strong self-control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.' W.C. Fields (ha ha - hilarious!)
'The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.' Chinese proverb (and one I should adhere to, being the wet blanket I am)
'Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.' Carl Jung (take that, suckers!)
'People are so busy lengthening their lives with exercise they don't have time to live them.' Johnathan Miller (such comfort in being a couch potato who reads Plato, eh Fati?)
'Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.' Theodore Dreiser, author
'I measure every grief I meet
With analytic eyes;
I wonder if it weighs like mine,
Or has an easier size.'
Emily Dickinson
'Measured my thing. It was eleven centimetres.' The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 (Adrian was a misunderstood, occasionally melancholic teenager who understood the importance of measuring) What a classic!
'I feel lower than a worm's tit' (I never imagined that, one day, I'd acknowledge feeling like this. It's so fricking hilarious! Do worms even have tits?)
'In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touch starved.' Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Senses (In other words: hug me, dammit!)
'Friends are God's apology for relatives.' Hugh Kingsmill, British poet
'In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.' Soren Kierkegaard
'It is never too late to be what you might have been.' George Eliot
'I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.' Marie Corelli, novelist
'Life's not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.' George Bernard Shaw