Quotes About Struggle

Lives are lost in order to save more lives. That is what the society is fighting.

depression can be exacerbated by things being all right externally, because the gulf between what you are feeling and what you are expected to feel becomes larger.

You lose your job, then more shit happens.

Humans were always doing things they didn't like doing. In fact, to my best estimate, at any one time only point three percent of humans were actively doing something they liked doing, and even when they did so, they felt an intense guilt about it and were fervently promising themselves they'd be back doing something horrendously unpleasant very shortly.

It is said that insanity is a logical response to an insane world. Maybe depression is in part simply a response to a life we don't really understand.

Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.

Parecía que ni siquiera morir se le daba bien a Nora. Era una sensación familiar, la de sentirse incompleta en casi todos los sentidos posibles. Un rompecabezas humano sin terminar. Una vida inconclusa y una muerte inconclusa también

Ik ben verlamd van angst voor de dwaalwegen van mijn geest, want ik weet waar hij allemaal al is geweest.

What we are and what we mean are different things. It's fine. The world makes it very hard not to be a prick.

We humans might have evolved too far. The prize for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe's worth of darkness

Yesterday I knew I had no future, and that it was impossible for me to accept my life as it is now. And yet today, that same messy life seems full of hope. Potential.

Sometimes the links between depression, anxiety, and productivity are undeniable.

She had a fire inside her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her.

It can affect people—millionaires, people with good hair, happily married people, people who have just landed a promotion, people who can tap dance and do card tricks and strum a guitar, people who have no noticeable pores, people who exude happiness in their status updates—who seem, from the outside, to have no reason to be miserable.

Trató de imaginarse cómo habría sido aceptarse a sí misma completamente. Todos los errores que habían quedado en su cuerpo. Todos los sueños que no había cumplido y todos los dolores que había sentido. Todos los deseos y anhelos reprimidos

I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead. I just didn't want to be alive.

Lincoln didn't do great work because he solved the problem of his melancholy; the problem of his melancholy was all the more fuel for the fire of his great work.

Dengarkan baik-baik. Kalau selama ini anda percaya bahwa seseorang yang depresi ingin bahagia, anda salah. Mereka sama sekali tidak peduli betapa menyenangkannya kebahagiaan. Mereka hanya ingin kepedihan mereka lenyap. Mereka ingin menjadi "normal". Atau, karena merasa normal benar-benar mustahil, mereka ingin menjadi "kosong".

Maybe there was no perfect life for her, but somewhere, surely, there was a life worth living.

It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.' 'So why live at all?' 'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too.

seemed the more lives she lived, the harder it was to feel at home anywhere.

this collision between one's image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it, you can meet the collision head-on and try and become what you really are or you can retreat and try to remain what you thought you were, which is a fantasy, in which you will certainly perish." —James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

Dear Whoever, I had all the chances to make something of my life, and I blew every one of them. Through my own carelessness and misfortune, the world has retreated from me, and so now it makes perfect sense that I should retreat from the world. If I felt it was possible to stay, I would. But I don't. And so I can't. I make life worse for people. I have nothing to give. I'm sorry.

Albert Camus said, "There is no love of life without despair of life.