Christian-fiction Quote by Geoffrey Wood

“Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it”

— Julie Schumacher

“Not only can depression separate you from yourself, if it lingers too long, as it did with Sally Brampton, you can lose your sense…

— Nick Dubin

Depression is unfocused self-pity.

— Bill Wilson

“Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for…

— Sally Brampton

“depression only happens to people who don’t know how to be sad.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“...depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself”

— Mohsin Hamid

“The depressed has no one, it is after suicide that all start coming around.”

— Sheppit

“The people who succeed despite depression do three things. First, they seek an understanding of what's happening. They they accept that this is a…

— Andrew Solomon

“There is in fact a category of people who get unusually close to the truth about themselves and the world. Their self-perceptions are more…

— Cordelia Fine

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

— Mark Epstein

“Depression is a physical illness, like bleeding from a wound that won’t close. You cannot fix it, it doesn’t heal.”

— Gaia B. Amman