DEPRESSION and MOODS

If there is one consistent undercurrent in Nineties America, it's the theme of diminished expectations - the death of optimism, if you will. People now routinely expect things to get worse before they get better, if they're going to get better at all. In this kind of atmosphere, suicide begins to look like the single most sincere form of self-criticism.
- found on the internet

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.
- Horace Walpole

We all are born mad. Some remain so.
- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

If we cannot find peace within ourselves, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
- La Rochefoucauld

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.
- Daisy May Bates

All sunshine makes the desert.
- Arab Proverb

I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.
- Lord Byron

He's just turned the page on the story of his life, and found the rest blank.
- found on the internet

There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.
- Jules Renard

RESUME
Razors pain you
Rivers are damp
Acids stain you
And drugs cause cramp
Gun's aren't lawful
Nooses give
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.
- Dorothy Parker

A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief
In word, or sigh, or tear.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is a pinch of the madman in every great man.
- French Proverb

Suicide: A decrease the number of people who actually understand what I'm going through.
- found on the internet

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