“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Death, Living
“I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.”— Stanisław Lem, amazon.comTagged: Emptiness, Depression, Sadness
“The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the sa…”— Melina Marchetta, amazon.comTagged: Depression, pregnant, Family
“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.comTagged: Depression, self-harm, Bravery
“I wanted to tell people, 'My depression is acting up today' as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.comTagged: Depression, social life, Friendship
“I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out. I don't want it to win.”— Jasmine Warga, amazon.comTagged: Darkness, Depression, Suffering
“Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of being sad, that OCD is a form of being uptight. They think the soul is sick, not the body. It is, they believe, something that you have some choice over. I know how wrong this is.”— David Levithan, amazon.comTagged: Mental Illness, Depression, ocd
“It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start t…”— J.A. Redmerski, amazon.comTagged: Sadness, Depression, Feelings, emotions
“And I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Numb, Life
“Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.”— Miriam Toews, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Questions, Life
“No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relations…”— Kay Redfield Jamison, amazon.comTagged: Pills, Depression, therapy
“Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it.”— Keary Taylor, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Change, Survival
“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”— Andrew Solomon, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Depression, circumstance
“I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care.…”— Jane Smiley, amazon.comTagged: depressed, Life, careless
“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”— Yann Martel, amazon.comTagged: Suffering, Pain, Life
“I’m playing at real life instead of actually living it.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.comTagged: Life, Depression, Acting, Living
“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”— Albert Camus, amazon.comTagged: Death, skepticism, Suffering
“When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.”— Fiona Apple, books.google.comTagged: Lonely, Depression, Trust
“The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.”— William Styron, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Suicide, anguish
“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”— Paula Hawkins, amazon.comTagged: Control, Depression, Life