Depression Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“He didn't understand depression. To him it was weakness.”

— Mitch Albom

“I hated him for not being depressed. He seemed a fool-- everyone who didn't feel like me was a fool. I alone knew the…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Depression can be a form of self hatred. We don't feel comfortable in our own skin.”

— Michele Mcknight Baker

“...Even to me, a sufferer, 'depression' seems like a fetid load of weaselly claptrap, a cheap and easy excuse for not participating in life.”

— Michael Ian Black

“The attitude that depression is necessary strikes me as destructive, inhuman, and victimizing.”

— David D. Burns

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

— Julie Schumacher

“I cannot honestly say I was depressed. Maybe I felt more oppressed or suppressed. Label”

— Maria B. Bourke

“Depression, contrary to what we normally believe, is not sadness but an inability to fully feel sadness. Depression is sorrow denied.”

— Eric Weiner

“He had been through so much, and had grown so discouraged, so sad, so disgusted with himself, that he could understand... It was the…

— Anonymous

“I wondered how this misery would end. I was full of fear. I was afraid to tell others what I felt lest they would…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world.”

— Ned Vizzini

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

— Sue Monk Kidd