Depression is sadness gone wrong.

—Lewis Wolpert

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About Lewis Wolpert

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Lewis Wolpert (19 October 1929 – 28 January 2021) was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert popularized his French flag model of embryonic development, using the colours of the French flag as a visual aid to explain how embryonic cells interpret genetic code for expressing characteristics...

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Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

—Mason Cooley

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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

—Douglas Coupland in Life After God

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Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

—Christopher Morley

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Sometimes, when you're sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

—Cornelia Funke in Inkheart

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