Wes Smyth

“Biology is not destiny. There are ways to lead a good life with depression. Indeed, people who learn from their depression can develop a particular moral profundity from the experience,”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
― Roman Payne

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to committ outrages…”
― Hermann Hesse

“Depression claims more years than war, cancer, and AIDS put together. Other illnesses, from alcoholism to heart disease, mask depression when it causes them; if one takes that into consideration, depression may be the biggest killer on earth. Treatments”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression