Patient reluctant to be with people when depressed because she feels her depression is such an intolerable burden on others;
Mental exhaustion had taken a long, terrible toll, but, strangely, it was only in feeling well, energetic, and high-spirited again that I had any true sense of the toll taken.
It took my year in England to make me realize how much I had been simply treading water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in and seeking out life. The chance...
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable, wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. If
لقد كنت معتادة على كون عقلي هو أحسن صديق لي , وعلى ادارة حوارات لانهائية لها داخل رأسي , و على ما بنيته داخل عقلي من مصدر للضحك و الفكر التحليلي لإنقاذي من البيئة المملة .
لقد اعتقدت بصدق في وقت من الأوقات أن هناك كمية محددة من الألم يجب أن يمر بها كل انسان في هذه الحياة
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadness of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, a...
There were, however, definite advantages to studying invertebrate zoology. For starters, unlike in psychology, you could eat your subjects. The lobsters—fresh from the sea and delicious—were especiall...
Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.
It did the kind of lasting damage that only something that cuts so quick and deep to the heart can do.
I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on
He thought of women in terms of breasts, not minds, and it always seemed to irritate him that most women had both.
In its severe forms, depression paralyzes all of the otherwise vital forces that make us human, leaving instead a bleak, despairing, desperate, and deadened state. . .Life is bloodless, pulseless, and...
يأس كامل من المستقبل , خوف من تكرار الآلام و المعاناة الى المالانهاية .
لقد استغرق الأمر سنةً كاملة في إنجلترا لجعلي أدرك أنني كنت فيما مضى أمشي على الماء مكتفيةً بمجرد محاولة البقاء على قيد الحياة و تجنب الألم بدلًا من الاندماج الحقيقي في الحياة.
كلنا نبني أسوارا بَحْرِيّة داخلية لتصد حزن الحياة والقوى الجامحة الموجودة غالبا داخل عقولنا. بأية طريقة فعلنا ذلك ـ عن طريق الحب، أو العمل، او العائلة، أو الإيمان، أو الأصدقاء، أو نكران الذات، او الكح...
Posthumous Piano Sonata in B-flat, D. 960. Its haunting,
What in the hell are you doing running around the parking lot at this hour? he asked. A not unreasonable question.
Try not to let the fact that you can’t read without effort annoy you. Be philosophical. Even if you could read, you probably wouldn’t remember most of it anyway.
The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in t...