Depression Quote by Sally Brampton

“One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.”

— Sally Brampton

“If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.”

— Sally Brampton

“Imagine saying to somebody that you have a life-threatening illness, such as cancer, and being told to pull yourself together or get over it.…

— Sally Brampton

“I once read a theory about ‘positive thinking’ that seems to be true or, at least, made a sufficient impression on me to remember…

— Sally Brampton

“Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you…

— Sally Brampton

“What we resist, will persist.”

— Sally Brampton

“Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody…

— Sally Brampton

“It is two years since I emerged from depression and I no longer want myself dead. I want myself alive. I am no longer…

— Sally Brampton

As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.

— Sally Brampton

In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world,…

— Sally Brampton

“Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.”

— Sally Brampton

“Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I…

— Sally Brampton