Quotes by : Sally Brampton

I would not wish depression on anybody. And yet, it taught me a lot. I have not become suddenly mawkishly....

Wanting to die (or 'suicidal ideation'as the experts would have it) goes hand in hand with the illness.....

Believe nothing. Try everything.

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active....

Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long,....

There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than....

Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; a man who gave up his seat for me on the bus,....

A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always,....

I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed....