“These days the only thing that gets me outside is when I say: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck you. Fuck me. Fuck this. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Just me and my depression, out looking for some lipstick to make us feel better while Call Your Girlfriend plays on.”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.com
“Depression is sleep. Too much, and way too little. You’re always tired—not from the lack of sleep—you’re a weird, unknown type of exhaustion that sneaks into your life and somehow, without you noticing, becomes part of who you are.”— Katie Mather, thoughtcatalog.com
“People who don't see you every day have a hard time understanding how on some days -- good days -- you can run three miles, but can barely walk across the parking lot on other days.”— Jennifer Starzec, amazon.com
“But depression wasn’t the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at all humanity and human endeavor from the dawn of time.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“People who suffer from depression often get frustrated with feeling like they’re a burden on other people.”— Koty Neelis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“Yeah and the sun it tries to warn me Boy those wings are made of wax While the things I do to kill me They just tell me to relax”— Ryan Adams, open.spotify.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
“I think and think and think. I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“Depression is a strength in you, because there’s nothing harder than overcoming demons within yourself.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“My body miraculous. I spent an entire year sleeping on a bed of swords and was not cut once. What I mean is my lonely looks a lot like insomnia when you hold it up to the light.”— Sabrina Benaim, lauralethe.tumblr.com
“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts -- you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”— D.D. Barant, amazon.com
“SOME DAYS YOU WAKE AND IMMEDIATELY START TO WORRY. NOTHING IN PARTICULAR IS WRONG, IT¹S JUST THE SUSPICION THAT FORCES ARE ALIGNING QUIETLY AND THERE WILL BE TROUBLE.”— Jenny Holzer, flickr.com
“I was not born live. This body grew but I did not feel cells split. How I act does not matter. I am waiting for everyone to die because that is the point.”— Jenny Holzer, amazon.com
“If you’re not grappling with self-doubt half the time, you’ve probably lost perspective. The confident ones give us the worst and most lifeless bullshit.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com