--- title: "1 Deep depression Quotes By Lauren Slater" description: "1 Deep depression quotes by Lauren Slater. Plus more from Lauren Slater and more Deep depression sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/lauren-slater-11238_coming-home_loftus-grew-up-with-a-cold-father-who-ta_1689483.png" --- > [“Loftus grew up with a cold father who taught her nothing about love but everything about angles. A mathematician, he showed her the beauty of the triangle's strong tip, the circumference of the circle, the rigorous mission of calculus. Her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/loftus-grew-up-with-a-cold-father-who-taught-her-nothing-about-love/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/lauren-slater-11238_coming-home_loftus-grew-up-with-a-cold-father-who-ta_1689483.png) ## More by Lauren Slater > [“When you die, there’s that much less breath to the world, and across continents someone supposedly separate gasps for air. When Marie, Joseph, peter,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/when-you-die-there-s-that-much-less-breath-to-the-world-and-across/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“When I was a girl I loved fevers and flus and the muzzy feeling of a head cold, all these states carrying with them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/when-i-was-a-girl-i-loved-fevers-and-flus-and-the-muzzy-feeling-of-a/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“Why doesn't passionate love last? how is it possible to see a person as beautiful on Monday, and 364 days later, on another Monday,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/why-doesn-t-passionate-love-last-how-is-it-possible-to-see-a-person/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“... instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/instead-of-spelling-stories-you-spread-silence-which-was-outside-the/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/finally-the-dawn-came-the-sky-fringed-with-pink-and-the-sun-bright-as/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“How do you describe emptiness? Is it the air inside a bubble, the darkness in a pocket, snow? I think, yes, I was six…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/how-do-you-describe-emptiness-is-it-the-air-inside-a-bubble-the/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/everyone-knows-that-a-lot-of-memoirs-have-made-up-scenes-it-s-obvious/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/are-psychiatric-crises-so-overwhelming-to-the-mind-that-they-inhibit/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“I had lived my life by these kinds of banners, only now, searching the sentence, I found little in it that resonated deep in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/i-had-lived-my-life-by-these-kinds-of-banners-only-now-searching-the/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [Much has been said about the meanings we make of illness, but what about the meanings we make out of cure? Cure is complex,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/much-has-been-said-about-the-meanings-we-make-of-illness-but-what/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“I believe my strength has something to do with memory, with that concept of fluid time. For while I recall with clarity the terror…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/i-believe-my-strength-has-something-to-do-with-memory-with-that/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“I couldn’t reach her. I was never able to reach her. Maybe she moved at a pace too fast. Maybe she was too sad.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/i-couldn-t-reach-her-i-was-never-able-to-reach-her-maybe-she-moved-at/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [“They cleared swiftly, dramatically, like a stage set or a movie; we went from black to stunning blue, the day emerging at once wet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/they-cleared-swiftly-dramatically-like-a-stage-set-or-a-movie-we-went/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [Depression is a death within, a knowledge - terrifying - that you cannot resurrect yourself. Depression is loss of the vision that lets leaves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/depression-is-a-death-within-a-knowledge-terrifying-that-you-cannot/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) > [I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-slater/i-was-born-from-nothing-and-to-nothing-i-will-return-and-yet-when-i/) [Lauren Slater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-slater/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deep-depression/lauren-slater/#itemlist", "name": "1 Deep depression Quotes By Lauren Slater", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Loftus grew up with a cold father who taught her nothing about love but everything about angles. 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