“Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are. They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficul…”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unraveling threads. The brightest parts were a nonsensical madman’s weaving. And now every day was a grey stitch, laid down with an outpatient’s patience, one following the next following the next, a story in lines, like a railway track to nowhere, telling absol…”— Alexis Hall, amazon.com
“I’ve been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I just wanna have fun and breathe, but I can’t do either one of them when I suffocate myself with depression.”— Lisa M. Cronkhite, amazon.com
“God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there’s nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression….Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twent…”— Jasmine Warga, amazon.com
“I bet if you cut open my stomach, the black slug of depression would slide out.”— Jasmine Warga, amazon.com
“If there's no one beside you When your soul embarks Then I'll follow you into the dark”— Death Cab For A Cutie, youtube.com
“Sometimes without even knowing it, you're the light to someone's darkness.”— Kirsten Corley, instagram.com
“He only likes to have sex in complete darkness. It could mean that he has body issues, but it could also mean he sees you as a body and only a body.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“You have to remember the worst times of your life later reveal themselves as the best times. And in those moments where you don't recognize yourself define who it is you want to be later. Feel through every ugly emotion until you can walk away from it. So often we repress intense emotions out of fea…”— Kirsten Corley, facebook.com
“You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What k…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Life comes rushing at you from out of the darkness. When it does, is there someone in your life you can count on? Someone who will watch over you when you stumble and fall? And will their love for you help them to guide you to the light?”— Lucas Scott, amazon.com
“Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.”— Helen Keller, amazon.com
“I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness”— E. E Cummings, amazon.com
“Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com