{"quotes":[{"text":"Don't lose hope. If your hope gets lost, the other side called 'failure' begins to win! The quickest medicine to heal a depressed soul is to command; 'arise my soul and praise the Lord'. Hope is the clothe piece in which wraps a healthy soul!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["arise","arise-my-soul","begin-to-win","command","depressed","depressed-soul","don-t-lose-hope","fail","failed","failure","food-for-thought","good-health","heal","health","healthy","healthy-soul","hopeful","israelmore-ayivor","lord","lose-hope","lost","medicine","praise","praise-the-lord","quick","quick-medicine","quickest","soul","win"],"id":2368,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"It has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would have been able to confidently depict for their friends and loved ones (even their physicians) some of the actual dimensions of their torment, and perhaps elicit a comprehension that has been generally lacking; such incomprehension has usually been due not to a failure of sympathy but to the basic inability of healthy people to imagine a form of torment so alien to everyday experience.","author":"William Styron","tags":["comprehension","depressed","depression","health","mental-illness","pain","sufferer","sympathy","torment","understanding"],"id":6874,"author_id":"William+Styron"},{"text":"The difference is,Now I cant call you anymore…I cant hear your calming voice,I cant hear your wordsThat made me always feel better,Now I am just all aloneIn this dark and cold room.","author":"JJM","tags":["alone","broken","broken-heart","dark","darkness","depressed","depression","heartbreak","lonely","love","pain","sad","sadness"],"id":9471,"author_id":"JJM"},{"text":"I hate forcing myself to go to bed to avoid committing suicide.","author":"Phil Volatile","tags":["depressed","hardship","life","poetry","sad","suicide"],"id":9477,"author_id":"Phil+Volatile"},{"text":"If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to understand the power of an ordinary human being to perform the seemingly impossible in the life of another human being. And how can that experience do anything less than drive me to try and make the world smile.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["alter","altering","change","changing","depressed","depression","encourage","encouraging","forlorn","happiness","happy","human","human-being","impossible","joy","joyful","lift","possible","raise","sad","sadness","smile","smiling","transform","transformation","uplift","world"],"id":12608,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Long time ago I had this thing called hope, but like I said it was long ago.","author":"JJM","tags":["depressed","depression","hope","sad","sadness"],"id":13507,"author_id":"JJM"},{"text":"Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.","author":"Sun Yat-sen","tags":["emotional","left","depressed "],"id":16512,"author_id":"Sun+Yat-sen"},{"text":"When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.","author":"Jackie Chan","tags":["everything","got","depressed "],"id":17127,"author_id":"Jackie+Chan"},{"text":"Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.","author":"Peter Steele","tags":["feelings","through","depressed "],"id":17330,"author_id":"Peter+Steele"},{"text":"Whenever I am sad and depressed; whenever I cry tears of pain or frustration I ask my little heart, why do I cry. Why does this emotion overtake me time and again. Then a little voice from within say that it’s OK to cry once in a while. If you’ve been hurt, it’s better to cry yourself to calmness, to console yourself instead of retaliating. These tears make me human instead of becoming a hard hearted person. Tears retain the innocent being within me. So tears are my biggest strength, they are my best friends….","author":"Latika Teotia","tags":["cry","depressed","human","life-lessons","pain","strength","tears"],"id":26609,"author_id":"Latika+Teotia"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":158,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}