Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
Depression is a physical illness.
Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.
Luxury is a state of mind.
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
The implication that depressed people are fundamentally irresponsible is a deeply damaging and counterproductive one. Winston Churchill was a depressive. He didn't just fly planes; he was in charge of the Royal Air Force.