Depression Quote by Mitch Albom

“And this of course, was the simplest definition of depression that he knew of: strongly disliking yourself.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“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

“I couldn’t explain to my son what was happening to me—he had no frame of reference for my depression. I hardly understood it myself.”

— Richard LeMieux

“I had no doubt that Tiny thought he got depressed, but that was probably because he had nothing to compare it to. Still, what…

— John Green

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

— Julie Schumacher

“He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved…

— Nell Freudenberger

“Depression is evil. Before you know it, it takes over and there's no escaping it.”

— E.L. Montes

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

— Gregory David Roberts

“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I…

— Simon Van Booy

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

— Eric Weiner

“...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

“depression is a deep sadness that does not go away.”

— Jim Fields