Latest Quotes

“The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant.”

— John Gardner, Grendel

“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“There was, for a while, a very large and very famous city.”

— Choire Sicha, Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City

“They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.”

— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel

“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”

— Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”

— Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.”

— Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt

“Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.”

— David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System: A Novel (Penguin Ink) (The Penguin Ink Series)

“All the dying that summer began with the death of a child, a boy with golden hair and thick glasses, killed on the railroad tracks outside New Bremen, Minnesota, sliced into pieces by a thousand tons of steel speeding across the prairie toward South Dakota.”

— William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace: A Novel

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”

— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)

“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”

— Amit Ray, OM Chanting and Meditation

“I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.”

— Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”

— D.D. Barant, Dying Bites (Bloodhound Files) by D. D. Barant (2012-06-29)

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”

— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary th…”

— J.K. Rowling, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon

“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“Is it ever too late to start again?”

— Rachel Elliott, Whispers Through a Megaphone

“You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective. It just means you're human.”

— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas: A Novel

“Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years.”

— Muriel Spark, The Driver's Seat (New Directions Paperbook)