He says, 'I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that.'' You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all.'' But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and then you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick. Michael Cunningham
You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.
-
Jasmine Warga
My mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw
-
Charles Bukowski
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
-
Andrew Solomon
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I loved it because I thought it was all I had. I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so...
-
Elizabeth Wurtzel
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now....
-
Elizabeth Gilbert
More Quotes By Michael Cunningham
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.
Beauty is a whore, I like money better.
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
How often since then has she wondered what might have happened if she'd tried to remain with him; if she’d returned Richard's kiss on the corner of Bleeker and McDougal, gone off somewhere (where?) with him, never bought the packet of incense or the alpaca...
