Depressives Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.”

— Jeanette Winterson

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

— Angela Carter

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is…

— Michael Redhill

“Katz had read extensively in popular sociobiology, and his understanding of the depressive personality type and its seemingly perverse persistence in the human gene…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Larry: She doesn't want to be happy. Dan: Everybody wants to be happy. Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're…

— Patrick Marber

Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal…

— Tim Sandlin

“I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's crazier than…

— Michael Thomas Ford

“Depressives cannot surrender childhood--not even the pains of childhood.”

— Saul Bellow Herzog

sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

— David Foster Wallace

Depressives have led countries, won wars, flown rockets to the moon, made great music. Don't let depression stop you employing someone, and never let…

— Matt Haig

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it…

— St. Vincent

The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and…

— Arthur Miller