“Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to resort to superstition of trust in curses and invocations. It is so easy to see why this does not work. Obviously, we try to know, name, and define fear in order t…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“But maybe you’re not dead inside. Maybe you just don’t love Rent enough.”— Zaron Burnett III, melmagazine.com
“Who shall unravel the mystery of a woman's weeping? Who shall declare whether it is pain or a relief to the over-charged heart? . . . When love's burning finger touches the pulse, and marks its slow or rapid beatings. And Thelma wept, as many of her sex weep, without knowing why, save that all sudde…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“You can have a terror of death and also be obssessed about your keratin treatment.”— Melissa Broder, itunes.apple.com
“I feel like I don't even belong to any world that even fucking matters.”— Ed Burns, Jimmy McNulty, Dominic West, imdb.com
“Somewhere inside me, there still lives a little girl who once tried to invent a time machine, just to go back in time to save Vincent Van Gogh from his sadness.”— Nikita Gill, instagram.com
“we study them in school, the tortured artists. look at all the poets who killed themselves what would their work have been without their depression?”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com
“When they say 'you're always unhappy Daria', what they mean is: 'You think Daria', I can tell because you don't smile.”— Glenn Eichler, Jane Lane, Wendy Hoopes, imdb.com
“Recalling failures does little to enhance self-control, despite conventional wisdom that one learns from their past mistakes. In fact, our results instead argue that focusing on one’s past mistakes may doom us to repeat them.”— Kristin Wong, thecut.com
“I'm not like a depressed person. But I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.”— Ellen Degeneres, oprah.com
“'You know something?' she said. 'What?' 'I'm completely empty.' 'Yeah?' 'Yeah.'”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Death was really what he wanted. He knew that it was the right ending for him. And yet he had to go on fighting with all his might. He had to fight against an overwhelming adversary in order to survive.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Just as I was thinking beginning to think, I'm OK now, I'm saved, it started up again. And once it gets going, there's nothing I can do.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“At this point, I hope all these things are depression-related because otherwise I’m just a bitch with a semipermanent case of the Sunday Scaries.”— Lara Marie Schoenhals, melmagazine.com
“Repression only leads to further depression – bringing these emotional ailments to the surface, however, gives them a greater chance to be exposed to medicine and heal.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Depression pushes people into isolation and robs them of the energy needed to do fun things.”— Nicole Pajer, huffingtonpost.com
“Roseanne: Did you get the anti-depressants? Dan: They're all yours. If you're not happy, I have no chance of being happy.”— Bruce Rasmussen, Dan Conner, John Goodman, imdb.com
“It seemed like no matter what I did, I kept letting people down. I started thinking how everyone's lives would be better without me.”— Elizabeth Benjamin, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com
“You know, sometimes I feel like I was born with a leak, and any goodness I started with just slowly spilled out of me, and now it's all gone. And I'll never get it back in me. It's too late.”— Peter Knight, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, BoJack Horseman, Will Arnett, imdb.com