“There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than 'Cheer up!' The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying 'cheer up' had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.”— Kōji Suzuki, amazon.com
“Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won’t rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Depression is the flaw in love... There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.”— Andrew Solomon, ted.com
“It [anxiety] was the feeling all the time like that feeling you have if you're walking and you slip or trip and the ground is rushing up at you, but instead of lasting half a second, the way that does, it lasted for six months.”— Andrew Solomon, ted.com
“Every night I win a war with myself only to be taken down by the sunlight.”— Nezrah Ahmad Masood, facebook.com
“Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art. Probably…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“But at night it’s a little tougher because it’s quieter and darker. And without all the noise around you, you sort of realise it’s just you.”— Anonymous, m.facebook.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
“A good muddy juice fills Joelle’s mouth with spit that’s as good as the juice, and her linen veil is drying and beginning once again comfortingly to flutter with her breath, and, perched alone and glanced at covertly by persons who don’t know they know her voice, she feels the desire to raise the ve…”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Oh lord when you are alone and do not want to be, you lie in bed with your own shoulder wrapped around and beneath yourself so that the surges of pain keep you company. This is hurtful but it is so much better than no nerves firing at all. The worst is when there’s no one near to press on you and ma…”— Jenny Holzer, artic.edu
“It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.”— Myra McEntire, amazon.com
“Yet writing a poem about something painful, she has discovered, can be her way of digesting it. 'One of the things I’ve learned is, if we try and put sadness off, it just waits. And in my experience, running away from sadness doesn’t do anybody any good.'”— Frieda Hughes, theguardian.com
“She was depressed. She was anxious. Because she was depressed and because she was anxious she drank too much. This was called medicating herself.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“Sometimes, the most healing thing we can do is remind ourselves over and over and over, 'Other people feel this way.'”— Andrea Gibson, youtube.com
“I have learned that when sadness comes to visit me, all I can do is say “I see you.” I spend some time with it, get up, and say goodbye. I don’t push it away, I own it. And because I own it, I let it go.”— Carolina Zacaria, facebook.com
“But you see, there is a graveyard in my mouth filled with words that have died on my lips.”— Emily Palermo, starredsoul.tumblr.com
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”— Anthony Doerr, amazon.com