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  • I can’t eat and I can’t sleep. I’m not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

    Ned Vizzini

  • There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

    Barbara Kingsolver

  • There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

    Laurell K. Hamilton

  • Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

    John Green

  • The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained…

    Katie McGarry

  • The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know…

    T.H. White

  • Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say My tooth is aching than to say My heart is broken.

    C.S. Lewis

  • Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

    John Keats

  • I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

    Ned Vizzini

  • If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one…

    Stephen Fry

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