There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

quote by Mark Twain
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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

quote by Christina G. Rossetti
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Depressed Mind

Depression is a state of mind. Where it comes from, how it begins, it is us humans on whom it all depends. We are the ones to invoke it and let it control us.

Our Situations our surroundings make us depressed, when we are in such mood, we are all so stressed. Our body suffers we get sick, we get prone to diseases that never exists. How do we fight such an enemy, who lives within.

Remember health is wealth so always show your positive self. Healthy mind is so divine, one whom depression can never find. So stay healthy and live in peace. This is the mindset that depression can never beat.

poem by Manpreet Tuli
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As we bask in sorrow

While recently having a conversation with a friend, we discussed 'basking in sorrow, ' which by definition, is an oxymoron.. bask meaning to take great pleasure or satisfaction; and sorrow meaning loss or despair.
It is possible to bask in sorrow. While for one reason or another, sadness consumes you, at the same time you could be quite happy. For example; I am naturally a happy person. Therefor while I may feel constant sadness about a certain situation, I may still be basking; or somewhat happy. (smiling, laughing, having a good time)
Many people have a sadness inside them that is hidden, or in the back of their mind at all times. These people are probably happy, can have fun, and seem to be in good cheer, while the sadness is still there, in their minds or hearts.

Therefor; we bask in sorrow.

Here we sit and bask in sorrow
Secretly begging for the morrow
A smile upon the outside face
Strength that shows as we run our race

Happiness is never too far away
Genuine cheer throughout the day
But a certain sadness wears us down
And being alone makes us frown

For this is what causes our heartache and grief
It hides under smiles, the sly little thief
So though we are basking in our sorrow today

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poem by Kamryn Chew
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What is Depression?

I see around me
'Depression is this'
'Depression is that'
Depression is hell
When you think of the world
as your enemy
And you run away
To your world,
Yet people try to pull you back,
'You weren't like this before'
'What happened to you? '
And it gets Sickening
to hear their concern
and to know
that your not all there.
Quick, put on a smile,
Or else back to the Pshycologist you go
where they treat you
like your three.
Fake a smile, and get out.

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poem by Nicole Brewer
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It is hard to feign merriment when one's heart is full of sadness.

quote by Tibullus
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

quote by Marcel Proust
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

quote by Maurice Maeterlinck
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All are sadist at time

I am happier to make the other happy
Than when I am made happy.
I should be sadder to make others sad
Than when I am made sad.

But not so. Each one is a sadist.
30.03.2001, Pmdi

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Happy

Sadness had been close as my next of kin
Then happy came one day, chased my blues away
My life began when happy smiled
Sweet, like candy to a child
Stay here and love me just a while
Let sadness see what happy does
Let happy be where sadness was
Happy, thats you
You made my life brand new
Lost as a little lam was I till you came in
My life began when happy smiled
Sweet, like candy to a child
Stay here and love me just a while
Let sadness see what happy does
Let happy be where sadness was
(till now)
Where have I been?
What lifetime was I in?
Suspended between time and space
Lonely until happy came smiling up at me

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song performed by Michael Jackson
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My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.

quote by Anne Stevenson
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My Favorite Depression

Every time I think of you
There follows a great succession
First my heart leaps for joy
Then follows a great depression
When I first think of you
My heart goes pitter patter
And when I try to talk
My words are all a scatter
Your hair flows before my eyes
Like waves of the beautiful sea
But that all fades when I remember
That you don't care for me
My heart drops deep within
And my spirit falls so fast
A tear dropp falls from my eye
Depression comes at last
I feel so dark and sad
I feel I need a retreat
But when I see you again
The cycle doth repeat

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poem by Thirteen Tears
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My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

quote by Joan Rivers
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Consider whether your fun will cause another's unhappiness.

American proverbs
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Feelings-07

Sadness is like being lost
Happiness is like nothing can go wrong

Music is like a summer day
Paris Hilton is an old forgotten dog

Excitement is overrated happiness
Boredom is what i feel everyday

Depression can be like a reflection of my life
Joy is a rare feeling i get when i feel loved

Pain is the hurt and sorrow you put me through
Misery is like having no one to stand beside you

Sadness is like being lost
Happiness is like nothing can go wrong

poem by Selena Star
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That Unhappy Woman

that is the window
a woman is unhappy and she is always
closing and opening
that window and people keep on looking
figuring out why that window
is unhappy
and they are all happy about the
proclaimed unhappiness of the other
that woman that window
not this woman not this window
not my woman not my window
always looking out somewhere
except this writer
this piece
this one not this one
that one over there not me but her

poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Sad Women.

Sad women always get up
to make breakfast for their children,
To tell him, ''have a nice day''
Sad women go to work and always do their best,
they make lunch and always sit last,
Sad women buy groceries on the way home,
make phone calls to hear someone's voice,
they are faithful to their promises,
Sad women take upon other's grief
Sad women comfort others and say
''everything will be okay'',
they don't let their sadness to come out,
Sad women don't have time to be sad,
Sad women cry when lights go out..

poem by Daria Domitrovic
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The Depression of the 1930's

The depression of the 1930's was the time of my childhood days,
There were a lot of worries and hardships in many ways.
Whatever time people could spare, they would help each other out,
Bad times also came when there was a draught.

The depression of the 1930's our parents would help make quilts of all kinds,
They would work long hours, day and night, it was alot on their minds.
Fathers would work on the W.P.A. just to make ends meet,
Breaking stones was very hard work, some of them fell to their feet.

The depression of the 1930's there were problems about work, severe
winters and war,
People never know from day to day what may be in store,
There were children of all ages, sick with an illness,
Some of them passed away with the long nights of stillness.
The depression of the 1930's made it bad for all ages,
Work was scare, there was pay of low wages.
During the depression, we all learned how to survive,
A lot of people shared the hardships by showing love and being alive.

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poem by Margaret Rodkey
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Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

quote by Julius Erving
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

quote by Democritus
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