“It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.” – A quote by whom?

  • Jennifer Niven
“Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome.” – A quote by whom?
  • Kay Redfield Jamison
“I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.” – A quote by whom?
  • Henry Rollins
“I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave.” – A quote by whom?
  • Margaret Atwood

“When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.” – A quote by whom?

  • Fiona Apple
“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.'” – A quote by whom?
  • C.S. Lewis

“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.” – A quote by whom?

  • Barbara Kingsolver

“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 quote by whom?

  • Katie McGarry
“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