“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, amazon.com
“Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves.”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“You get depressed because you know that you’re not what you should be.”— Marilyn Manson, goodreads.cm
“Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.”— David Deida, amazon.com
“But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“Happy. I honestly can't remember the last time someone used that word to describe me.”— Riley Sager, amazon.com
“Being miserable doesn't exclude us from the human community. It's a sure sign that we're very normal – and that life is progressing, in its own dark way, more or less exactly to plan.”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“Things we thought we'd never be able to get over become gradually become bearable; we adjust our mental posture, we stoop to accomodate a new reality.”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“Things can get slightly better for reasons it's hard to foresee. Just as pleasures fade and can seem meaningless in retrospect, so pains (at least sometimes) can pass or soften.”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“We should accord ourselves the same degree of forgiveness we wouldn't hesitate to direct to an acquaintance.”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“We live so close to ourselves, we know so much about our private failings, we miss that our flaws are general: present even in the outwardly placid, the beautiful, the rich and the people next door.”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“Our tribulations are a symptom of being human, never just a curse attached to our silver of existence.”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“Sorrow is not an individual failing; it is a basic reality for our entire species.”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“It takes more strength to admit you're depressed and do something about it than it does to just live with it. If you're down, get help.”— Matthew Santoro, twitter.com
“We rely on an internal engine or muscle of hope to pump out consoling thoughts. Then one day the task seems to much; the muscle can't take it anymore.”— The School of Life, youtube.com
“Societies tend slyly to insist on cheerfulness. We end up not only struggling, but humiliated that we are in such difficulties. Yet, in truth, there is nothing more natural or routine than grief.”— The School of Life, youtube.com