Sinéad Corcoran

“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.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
― Stephen Fry

“Be just before you are generous.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.”
― Samuel Beckett, All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen

“Romantic Ireland's dead and gone
It's with O' Leary in the grave
(September 1913)”
― William Butler Yeats, The Green Helmet and Other Poems