Sarah Dessen Quotes

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.

Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.

I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon.

But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

I cry all the time.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad.

I don't want to be submerged by depression.

I was a sad kid.

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

For a long time, I didn't want to live.

As bad as it feels, it's familiar to you. And the depression itself is making you unable to reach out. So, I've definitely experienced that in my life.

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.

I'm always sad.

He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.