"One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you."
- Sally Brampton
"Hope is only the love of life."
"There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are."
"Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with a..."
"Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they ..."
"We are not easy to help. Nor are we easy to be around. Nobody with a serious illness is easy to be around. Although not obviously physically disabled, we struggle to get things done. Our energy levels..."
"Imagine saying to somebody that you have a life-threatening illness, such as cancer, and being told to pull yourself together or get over it.Imagine being terribly ill and too afraid to tell anyone le..."
"A friend called the other day.'How are you?' she said.The sun was shining, the sky a merciless blue. It was only eleven in the morning but I had been awake since three twenty. I was in bed because, as..."
"As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear."
"Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed."