Books Quote by Maggie Nelson

“The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel…

— Lemony Snicket

“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get…

— Ned Vizzini

“What would happen if I felt the feelings and moved through the depression? I couldn’t ask myself what was on the other side of…

— Shannon Kaiser

“People drink more when they're sad.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“Depression for me is like a trip down into a well shaft..I wait for the tears to hit the water below and hope there…

— Shannon C. Bishop

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness

— Bertrand Russell

“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel…

— Lemony Snicket

“I still remember the moment. I ordered a chicken salad and it tasted like chalk. I knew I was depressed. And I went downhill…

— Andrew Solomon

I never thought that alcohol could ease the notion of the sadness, Now what used to be a happy home done turned into some…

— Big Boi

When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was…

— Kell Brook

“It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.”

— Habeeb Akande

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel