“I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; a man who gave up his seat for me on the bus, a woman who helped me out with a heavy shopping bag. Remembering small acts of kindness puts the… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.” — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.” — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“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 lest it destroys your career. Imagine being admitted to hospital because you are too ill to function and being too ashamed to tell anyone, because it… — Sally Brampton Copy Share
“I once read a theory about ‘positive thinking’ that seems to be true or, at least, made a sufficient impression on me to remember it. I have always been distrustful of positive thinking, believing it to be as fixed and unyielding as negative thinking. Yet it is the advice most often offered to depressives. That it does not work seems… — Sally Brampton Copy Share
“Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“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 note of approval, "He fought so hard." And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply… — Sally Brampton Copy Share
“I would not wish depression on anybody. And yet, it taught me a lot. I have not become suddenly mawkishly grateful for my life… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“It is two years since I emerged from depression and I no longer want myself dead. I want myself alive. I am no longer… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence. — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world,… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.” — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
