“Always only the desire to die and the not-yet-yielding; this alone is love.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“you know those moods where you just wanna cut everything and everyone off 'n just fall asleep for like two weeks.”— bpdlils, bpdlils.tumblr.com
“We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.”— Kay Redfield Jamison, nytimes.com
“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and n…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Depression and Anxiety is like radiation. There’s always a little bit of it in the background but not enough to kill you. Then once in a while you get a free trip to Chernobyl.”— just-shower-thoughts, just-shower-thoughts.tumblr.com
“How am I supposed to like myself if all these shitty things keep happening because I do them???”— Allie Brosh, amazon.com
“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others – The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I think people noticed behavior that was manifested from the depression, but they interpreted it in a different way. Like, 'She's stuck up.' Or, 'She's a bitch.'”— Holly Madison, buzzfeed.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
“I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness…”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com