If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation;… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey are not all bad. Those devils… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You don't get depressed because bad things happen to you. That's getting pissed off and annoyed. That's reasonable. Someone hits you in… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation;… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being similar to weather.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
[My best tip for overcoming depression is] to regard it as being like the weather. It's not your responsibility that it's raining,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Look at the kind of people who most object to the childishness and cheapness of celebrity culture. Does one really want to side with… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The object of love should feel honoured or flattered, responsible in some way. Instead he felt insulted, degraded and revolted. More than that, he… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
![“[My best tip for overcoming depression is] to regard it as being like the weather. It's not your responsibility that it's raining, but it is real when it rains, and the fact that it's raining does not mean that the rain is never going to stop. The only thing to do is to believe that, one day, it…” quote by Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/647/stephen-fry-573_accepting_my-best-tip-for-overcoming-depression-is_2435351.jpg)
