“I love you, and I am sorry you are having these feelings. I am here, I will help you get through this. You will come out a better person. I know. I promise because I have been there. Now, let me pray for you.”— Ness F., recovery.org
“A lot of people are kind of depressed. I’m happy some of the time, and some of the time I’m not.”— Elliott Smith, blankonblank.org
“Depression is like a virtual reality headset where life is made of cardboard and your feet are made of fire.”— Tay Zonday, twitter.com
“For those suffering from depression, the world has fallen apart every day and is put back together the next day.”— Emily Casalena, screenrant.com
“There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenizing, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feelings -- depression, anxiety,…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Depression is not just a bad day or a bad mood and it’s not something someone can just ‘get over.’”— Koty Neelis, thoughtcatalog.com
“No matter how shitty you feel, get up, get showered, and go to work. Don't let that asshole bring you down.”— Sarah A Denzil, amazon.com
“Most emotional and physical symptoms of stress and depression are not typically caused by the circumstances themselves, but instead by how our minds perceive what is going on and how our hearts hold up under the pressure.”— Tracie Miles, amazon.com
“Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.”— Jonathan Rottenberg, amazon.com
“Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.”— Chris Prentiss, amazon.com
“My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kills every question. I don’t belong here.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I for one am afraid that our American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a wanton forgetting of an essential part of a full life. I further am wary in the face of this possibility: to desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inau…”— Eric G. Wilson, amazon.com
“Depression, anxiety and everyday stress can also squash sex drive—particularly for women, who, more often than men, have difficulty reaching orgasm due to mental "blocks" and the effects of stress. It also doesn't help that some medications used to treat depression and anxiety, including Prozac, Pax…”— Editors of Shape, shape.com
“You see that girl, she looks so happy right? But inside she's dying. She's hurt and tired.”— Jayne Higgins, amazon.com