Ann Brashares Quotes

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.

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.

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.

I had always thought of myself as a sanguine person, quite light and airy. But for a long while, no one could have possibly made me laugh or smile. It was awful.

The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

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

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

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.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

Nothing good comes out of depression.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

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.

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this.

There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

I don't want to be submerged by depression.

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

I was so broken when I did the first record. I was living in my parents' basement, I didn't know anyone. I was broken-hearted and writing this really dark record. I was at the bottom of a well.

I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be.

The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this hole where my life became cold, and it became gray, and I lost sight of everything that was important to me.