True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn’t have this guilt – the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.

Sometimes I though about killing myself. The idea of it circled my head, shining and lovely like a tinsel halo. How beautiful it would be if everything could just stop. If I could stop. If...

When the door to suicide opens it becomes a viable option that you never considered before, but, once ajar, it initiates an invasion strategy. Day by day thoughts blacken under the occupation of the new...

Creative people are more prone to depression.

Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home.Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don’t stop me going out in the evenings. It’s cruel and unjust on my part, but let me commit...

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and always has been, just as happiness is in some people. I refuse to be told that it’s...

You have a light in you that’s almost blinding. But in me there’s only darkness. Sometimes I think it’s like the darkness that infected you that night in the inn when you began to cry...

…trying to use willpower to overcome the apathetic sort of sadness that accompanies depression is like a person with no arms trying to punch themselves until their hands grow back. A fundamental component of the...

Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

Depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain, and it is not cured by medication. Depression may not even be an illness at all. Often, it can be a normal reaction to...

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I...

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very...

Nestled in the valley of darkness, in the deepest depths of depression, are the priceless gems of; creativity, intuition and sensitivity. The trick is learning how to navigate the dark, so these precious gems can...

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Here is the world. Don’t be afraid for wonderful and terrible things will happen. Simply remember to breath.

I sometimes think that I don’t have a purpose in this world. I am simply useless and wandering.

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

…the heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Depression is a sign of strength – because it means no matter how weak your mind might be to you, your heart is still strong enough to feel.

When we criticize the suicidal for being selfish, we are actually criticizing them for not enduring their pain with grace and good manners. These are nice qualities; we may be correct to reproach average citizens...

If green is envy and blue is depression, then I’m feeling quite turquoise right now. But maybe with a little luck, I’ll feel teal a little later.

The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.

Every day you feel like you can’t control the forces affecting your fate-your job,the government,your addiction,your depression,your money. So you stage micro-revolts. You customise your ringtone,you paint your room,you collect stamps. You choose.Choices,even small ones,can...

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

What happened? Who killed me?

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is...

What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy...

Diversion is pernicious to depressives. Our lives are like waking dreams–correction, nightmares–where monsters chase us, never breaking off pursuit in order to rest or to eat or to look for easier prey. Diversion prevents us...

With God as my witness and love as my guide, I did all the best that I could. I’m sorry I wasn’t everything you ever wanted. I’m sorry I wasn’t enough. If I could only...

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...

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.

Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.

Mental Health is measured though motivation to live; the more plans you have and the more significant they are, the more healthy you are.

Just a second of her laughter can get me through the darkest day.

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing,...

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery.

Depression can be a form of self hatred. We don’t feel comfortable in our own skin.

It’s all about self-discipline. Like, self-obsession is connected completely with self-loathing, and it’s the same with, if you’ve got a weight problem. It’s all about… finding some worth in yourself, knowing that you’ve got the...

There’s been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn’t be able to get out of.

I swear, with Chloe Bear once again as my witness…That my problems and failures will not stop me, nor will they dictate who I am.That I will continue to be my own person.That life is...

The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process.