“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”— Jasmine Warga, amazon.com
“I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.”— Stanisław Lem, amazon.com
“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.”— Rainbow Rowell, 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
“I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colors and shades I knew existed.”— Katie McGarry, amazon.com
“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“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
“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”— Amit Ray, amazon.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
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”— Jennifer Niven, 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
“If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective. It just means you're human.”— David Mitchell, amazon.com
“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to li…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome.”— Kay Redfield Jamison, amazon.com
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.”— Stephen Fry, amazon.com