“I want to be afraid but it seems that these days I'm caught under water and I'm falling farther. My heart's getting harder, I'm calling my father. Am I screaming to an empty sky?”— Tyler Joseph, youtube.com
“They say the ocean’s blue but it’s black right now, in the dark, on the sand, looking out at my crowd. Depression and drowning singing now, the full parts of lightning reveals where the ocean stops and the sky starts. I’ve been told by the sky that the ocean I shall win, but it’s hard for me to see…”— Tyler Joseph, Future Of The Purple, open.spotify.com
“this is where i come from. everyone i love still lives there.”— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.com
“Depression commercials always talk about sadness but they never mention that sneaky symptom that everyone with depression knows all too well: the Impossible Task.”— M. Molly Backes, twitter.com
“Saying suicide is selfish is saying, 'Although I don’t understand clinical depression & suicide I’m going to judge people who die from it even if causes unimaginable pain + trauma and stigmatizes mental illness because it makes me feel better + safer.'”— Brené Brown, twitter.com
“Zorya: You keep giving away your life. You don't much care if you live or die do you? Shadow: The world's not what I thought it would be. Zorya: You'd rather die than live in a world with bears in the sky.”— Maria Melnik, Shadow Moon, Ricky Whittle, imdb.com
“There is a depression after an answer is given. It was almost fun not knowing.”— Harley Peyton, Robert Engels, Mark Frost, Log Lady, Catherine E. Coulson, imdb.com
“I fell into depression, addiction, violence, promiscuous sex, and I even attempted suicide actually ...I've never shared that until now. I wanted to end the daily pain and end the hurt and the loss, but somehow I held on and now that I've fallen back to him and living IN love, and showing OTHERS LOV…”— Austin Carlile, loudwire.com
“A lot of indie music that I grew up with was very depressing but metal had lots of different expressions. But there are new metal bands where it almost became a fad to be damaged, depressed and sad. Your point about a wave of R&B and trap artists that are out right now singing about depressing stuff…”— Mike Shinoda, interview.de
“In the morning when I wake up, there are these few seconds before I realize where I am. And then I do realize, and I can't breathe. And I want to cry and throw shit and kill myself. When does that end?”— Jenji Kohan, Piper Chapman, Taylor Schilling, imdb.com
“Sabrina: Mr. Pool, do you have a minute? Mr. Pool: Yes, a lifetime of them. And they are suddenly going by very slowly.”— Jon Sherman, Sabrina Spellman, Melissa Joan Hart, imdb.com
“The pain doesn't go away. You just make room for it.”— Glen Mazzara, Scott M. Gimple, Andrea Harrison, Laurie Holden, imdb.com
“Weird . . . People are born in order to live, right? But the longer I've lived, the more I've lost what's inside me—and ended up empty. And I bet the longer I live, the emptier, the more worthless, I'll become.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I want us to stop this culture of only talking about mental health when a famous person dies. It should be an ongoing discussion where awareness is spread and future tragedies are prevented. It should not be an attempt by some to get retweets and likes.”— Luke Waltham, twitter.com
“That's the thing about depression: if you really allow yourself to feel it, it gets very boring very fast.”— Laurence Andries, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com