“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”

― Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor

“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to... See more

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."

[ Modernism's Patriarch ( Time Magazine , June 10, 1996)]”

― Robert Hughes

“All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.”

At the time Switters had disputed her assertion. Even at seventeen, he was aware that depression could have chemical causes.

“The key word here is roots,” Maestra had countered. “The roots of depression. For most people, self-awareness... See more