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
Weather is real. It is absolutely real: when it rains, it rains – you get wet, there is no question about it.… — 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
“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
[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
“...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