#depression

"And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with youall through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed,Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?-And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?"

"Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?"

"When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary."

"It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness."

"Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason."

"She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair."

"Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs."

"Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence."

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."

"Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine."

"I was so depressed I thought about committing TV. I mean suicide. In the end I decided to binge on @Netflix and it really made me feel better."

"But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent."

"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."

"The first time I saw her,Everything in my head went quiet."

"Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When "I"is replaced by "We", illness becomes wellness."

"One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."

"For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to."

"Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it."

"Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true,"and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true."

"If ever I was running, it was towards you."