“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
“Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals”
Clarence Darrow
“...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling...People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”
Judith Guest
“Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.”
Tom Bosley
“For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.”
Marcel Proust
“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”
John Wanamaker
“The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt”
Thomas Merton
