“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“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
“Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts”
Penelope Sweet
“Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“I'm not always depressed: only when I think and feel”
Ashleigh Brilliant
“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
