“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”— Dean Martin, books.google.com
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has co…”— Alan Bennett, amazon.com
“Always there every time you need me It ain’t love but just like nicotine You’re addicted to a feeling you can only get From me and your cigarettes”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“I don't want to see you or feel you I don't want to look into your eyes I don't want to touch you or miss you I just want to love your memory tonight”— Miranda Lambert, amazon.com
“I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“She lay there on a bed that inexorably became a bed of ashes and hot coals, while her imagination dwelt on every conceivable disaster, from his having forsaken her for another woman to his having, somehow, ended up in the morgue. And as the night faded from black to gray to daylight, the telephone b…”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“The familiar panic at feeling misperceived is rising, and my chest bumps and thuds. I expend energy on remaining utterly silent in my chair, empty, my eyes two great pale zeros. People have promised to get me through this.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. But your airways ignore you. They collapse, tighten, squeeze, and suddenly you’re breathing through a drinking straw. Your mouth closes and your lips purse and all you can m…”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start t…”— J.A. Redmerski, 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
“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
“If she's sad or upset or angry, she needs to be alone. She fears a man dismissing her womanly tears.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happenin…”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com