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“Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.”
Source : Aaron T. Beck (1967). “Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects”, p.36, University of Pennsylvania Press
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“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”
Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
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“Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.”
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“People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.”
Source : "The Prince of Reason". Interview with Robert Epstein, www.psychologytoday.com. June 9, 2016. 
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“I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.”
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“Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House
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“By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.”
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“Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.”
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“We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.”
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“When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.”
