“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.” – A quote by whom?
  • C.S. Lewis

“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.” – A quote by whom?

  • John Green

“That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end.” – A quote by whom?

  • Elizabeth Wurtzel
“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.” – A quote by whom?
  • Stephen Fry
“The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can’t get away from it. Not ever.” – A quote by whom?
  • Nina LaCour
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” – A quote by whom?
  • Laurell K. Hamilton
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” – A quote by whom?
  • Oscar Wilde
“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” – A quote by whom?
  • Lao Tzu

“It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn’t even think. That’s the whole trouble. When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think.” – A quote by whom?

  • J.D. Salinger
“You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.” – A quote by whom?
  • Robin Williams

“Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved’s hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?” – A quote by whom?

  • Sarah Ruhl
“Very jaded and tired and depressed and cross…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.” – A quote by whom?
  • Virginia Woolf
“When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.” – A quote by whom?
  • Yann Martel
“It is very hard to explain to people who have never known serious depression or anxiety the sheer continuous intensity of it. There is no off switch.” – A quote by whom?
  • Matt Haig
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.” – A quote by whom?
  • James Branch Cabell
“I am in that temper that if I were underwater I would scarcely kick to come to the top.” – A quote by whom?
  • John Keats