Suicide is not chosen, it happens when pain exceeds resources from coping with the pain. Anonymous Depression, Sad You May Also Like When depression is stigmatized as illness and weakness, a double bind is created: if we admit to depression, we will be stigmatized by others; if we feel it but do not admit it, we stigmatize ourselves, internalizing the social judgment. . . . The only remaining choice may be truly sick behavior: to experience no emotion at all. By Lesley Hazelton Depression, Psychology Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. By H. L. Mencken Death, Escape, Sad People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. By Ann Landers Drink, Sad The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. By William Hazlitt Depression, Enjoyment, Life, Wise Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world. By Kent Nerburn Grief, Mourning, Sad All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I’m sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is. By Frank O’Connor Grief, Mourning, Sad You May Also Like from Anonymous Never pride yourself on knowledge. Remember, even a head of iceberg lettuce knows more than you do. It knows whether or not that light really does go out when the refrigerator door shuts. By Anonymous Funny, Humbleness, Knowledge, Modesty Make love, not war. By Anonymous Love, Romantic The real power of labor is that it works. By Anonymous Funny, Labor, Positive, Uplifting, Work You’re only young once. By Anonymous Life, Motivational, Youth There are more old drunkards than old doctors. By Anonymous Drink Modesty in delivering our opinions leaves us the liberty of changing them without embarrassment. By Anonymous Modesty
When depression is stigmatized as illness and weakness, a double bind is created: if we admit to depression, we will be stigmatized by others; if we feel it but do not admit it, we stigmatize ourselves, internalizing the social judgment. . . . The only remaining choice may be truly sick behavior: to experience no emotion at all. By Lesley Hazelton Depression, Psychology
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim. By Ann Landers Drink, Sad
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. By William Hazlitt Depression, Enjoyment, Life, Wise
Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world. By Kent Nerburn Grief, Mourning, Sad
All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I’m sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is. By Frank O’Connor Grief, Mourning, Sad
Never pride yourself on knowledge. Remember, even a head of iceberg lettuce knows more than you do. It knows whether or not that light really does go out when the refrigerator door shuts. By Anonymous Funny, Humbleness, Knowledge, Modesty
Modesty in delivering our opinions leaves us the liberty of changing them without embarrassment. By Anonymous Modesty
