“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”— Charlie Chaplin, books.google.com
“Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more. Damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die...This is how you lose her.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“You try every trick in the book to keep her...You try it all, but one day she will simply sit up in bed and say, No more, and, Ya, and you will have to move from the Harlem apartment that you two have shared…You say won’t go. But in the end you do.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“Memories, as my father once said, are porcupines. To hell with them! Stay away from them! They make you unhappy. They ruin your work. They make you cry.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will.’”— Peyton Sawyer, imdb.com
“’The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.”— Adam Gopnik, goodreads.com
“If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.”— Stephen King, goodreads.com
“Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imag…”— Cesare Pavese, goodreads.com
“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.com
“I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.”— Stanisław Lem, amazon.com
“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, books.google.com
“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”— Barbara Kingsolver, amazon.com
“They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Millions of dollars later, and neither of them were happy. Money is wasted on the rich.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com