![]() Posted in books, Depression, Novels, Pain, quotations, reading Tagged Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park 207 (2002). Your work slides, your friendships slide, your marriage slides, but you scarcely notice: to be depressed is to be half in love with disaster.” All at once, you find yourself in thrall to the very thing that most terrifies you. It captures you with its warm, guilty, hateful pleasures, and, worst of all, it becomes familiar. ![]() ![]() It fogs the part of the brain that reasons, that knows right and wrong. With all the guile of Satan himself, depression persuades you that its invasion was all your own idea, that you wanted it all along. or to imagine that you might live that way again. ![]() ![]() Depression is seductive: it offends and teases, frightens you and draws you in, tempting you with its promise of sweet oblivion, then overwhelming you with a nearly sexual power, squirming past your defenses, dissolving your will, invading the tired spirit so utterly that it becomes difficult to recall that you ever lived without it. ![]()
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