“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas Edison
Author: allies
“Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.” -Don Quixote
“When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. ‘This is my last experiment,’ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. ‘If there … Read More
“When people kill themselves, they think they’re ending the pain, but all they’re doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.” ― Jeannette Walls
“Good timber does not grow with ease, the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.” -J. Willard Marriott
“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.” ― … Read More
“Depression is a painfully slow, crashing death. Mania is the other extreme, a wild roller coaster run off its tracks, an eight ball of coke cut with speed. It’s fun and it’s frightening as hell. Some patients – bipolar type I – experience both extremes; other – bipolar type II – suffer depression almost exclusively. … Read More
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.” ― Juliette Lewis
“There is but one true philosophical problem and that is suicide.” ― Albert Camus
“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.” ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays