“Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.”

“If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”

“An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us.”

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”

“Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.”

“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”

“If it were not for the depressing heat and the urgency of the work, one could sit down and laugh to tears at the absurdity of the thing, and under the circumstances it is a little wearing. But our motto is the old west coast proverb,; in other words, don't flurry; patience gains the day.”

“Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants”

“They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.”

“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”