“The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.”
Leonard Cohen
“A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.”
Jonathan Davis
“Depression is the inability to construct a future”
Rollo May
“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts”
Penelope Sweet
“This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.”
Charlie Brown
“In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.”
William Styron
