Circumstances Quote by Andrew Solomon

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air,…

— Andrew Solomon

When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.

— Meghan O'Rourke

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“Grieving for someone or something is not a mental health issue it is sorrow and grief.Grief can become depression but often it is just…

— Liz Crowe

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

— Alison Bechdel

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.

— Anne Grant

Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

— Plutarch

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

— Nicolas Roeg

Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.

— Carrie Brownstein

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

— Denise Levertov