Books Quote by Jonathan Rottenberg

“Perhaps you don’t need telling that self-help books, the modern-day apotheosis of the quest for happiness, are among the things that fail to make…

— Oliver Burkeman

“The depressed don’t write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the conviction that,…

— Elena Ferrante

“Life is very difficult. There's nothing to be ashamed of by reading self-help books. If you're stuck in a dark place it can be…

— Jim Dooley

I was inspired by self-help books.

— Rudy Ruettiger

What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather…

— Alain de Botton

Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page…

— Mary Ritter Beard

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Out of everything the depression stole from me... I miss my books the most.”

— Frank Warren

“Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to…

— Geoffrey Wood

“Depression ceases when a simple book captivates your soul.”

— K. F

Many read self help books I often wonder if they are just searching for one better than they can write themselves?

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“One of the most important tasks of any therapist is to help depressed patients find the courage and determination to resist and fight these…

— David D. Burns