Ned Vizzini Quotes

I have a tremendous battle with melancholy and depression.

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

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

I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.

Trust me, you know when you've got depression.

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

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

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 internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

When you are in depression, almost magically, nothing motivates you.

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

I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

I have had periods of depression in my life.

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

I was depressed for a long time.

What's often not acknowledged about depression is how much anger is in it.

I went through an extreme depression.

When people are acutely depressed, many of them seem to want to hide.