"Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating."
- Neel Burton
"Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe."
"Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness."
"The three most powerful seasonings are hunger, variety, and gratitude."
"If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth."
"There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about."
"When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive."
"Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be understood as nothing less or more than what they are, an expression of our deepest human nature. By rec..."
"In 1949, neurologist Egas Moniz (1874-1955) received a Nobel Prize for his discovery of ‘the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses’. Today, prefrontal leucotomy is derided as a barbaric ..."
"You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures' or ‘losers'. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. If these people are in the depressive position, it is mo..."