Mystery

“Here’s the weird part: even when I was in the darkest and most despairing times of my depression, I still found depression funny. It was funny to me that the illness distorted my view of the real world like a funhouse mirror. It was funny that I could be immobilized by something that had no basis in a broken bone or bacteria or any tangible factor. And when other people, especially comedians and writers, shared their experiences with depression and those experiences were resonant with my own, I could laugh because we were all getting fooled together. I laughed in the same way an audience laughs at a particularly good trick pulled off by a magician. “We’ve all been deceived, but we don’t know how!”
― John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression

“Depression can ruthlessly and relentlessly sap people’s strength, foil attempts at success, corrupt mood, poison concentration, arrest movement toward stated goals, obstruct opportunity, endanger careers, challenge friendships, and sabotage relationships.”
― Roger Di Pietro, Mysteries and Mindsets

“Relationships are built in the silences. You spend time with people, you observe them and interact with them, and you come to know them—and that is what apartheid stole from us: time.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.”
― Kate Moore, The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women