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mood: tired bloody tired of ece 141
song of the day: cats in the cradle
current rave: wala. auntie anne's siguro. yum!

Sadness

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson


Do you seriously think that blood is the only thing in this world that is colored red?

- Genjo Sanzo, Gensomaden Saiyuki


... this is how to bully a man; this is a how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man, and if that doesn't work there are other ways, and if they don't work don't feel too bad about giving up; this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quickly so that it doesn't fall on you...

- Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"


Depression, when it’s clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it’s known to respond to medication and to counseling. However truly you believe there’s a sickness to existence that can never be cured, if you’re depressed you will sooner or later surrender and say: I just don’t want to feel bad anymore. The shift from depressive realism to tragic realism, from being immobilized by darkness to being sustained by it, thus strangely seems to require believing in the possibility of a cure…

- Jonathan Franzen


Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

- Oscar Wilde


Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

- Perry Farrell


In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; more pain will follow. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. So the decision-making of daily life involves not, as in normal affairs, shifting from one annoying situation to another less annoying - or from discomfort to relative comfort, or from boredom to activity - but moving from pain to pain. One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

- William Styron, "Darkness Visible"


o di ba, sadness ang edition natin ngayon. jake came by my room to show his samurai costume for his friend's costume party sa saberday. astig talaga tong batang to. he can create such things from mundane rubber sheets. astig! :D hehehe o sige