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I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887
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I define a recession as when your neighbor loses his job, but a depression is when you lose your own. — Dave Beck · 1954
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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty. — David Hume · 1758
He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness—the sense that that is where we really belong. — Graham Greene · 1948
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. — Herman Melville · 1851
I have been one acquainted with the night. — Robert Frost · 1928