Latest Quotes

“I'm pretty much fucked.”

— Andy Weir, The Martian

“See the child.”

— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“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, The Healing Angel Within

“They shoot the white girl first.”

— Toni Morrison, Paradise (Vintage International)

“All this happened, more or less.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

“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, The Fall

“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”

— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Now, what I want is, Facts.”

— Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”

— Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.”

— Jack London, The Call of the Wild (Global Classics)

“Midnight fell at the First Bank of Cleveland with the lonely clang of the great clock in the lobby.”

— D.M. Pulley, The Dead Key

“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, A Thousand Acres: A Novel

“While I was still in Amsterdam, I dreamed about my mother for the first time in years.”

— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”

— Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“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, What I Didn't Say

“Towards the close of the Middle Ages, in 1285, there lived three men whose lives would intersect and forever change history.”

— Jon M. Sweeney, The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation

“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, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.”

— Miriam Toews, Swing Low: A Life

“That last year at Christmas time, every morning dawned laced with frost under leaden skies.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Book 3)

“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, The Edge of Never