When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand ... The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better.

My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

'Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

There is no chiropractic treatment, no yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than the homely ceremony of making bread.

Come and take choice of all my library and so beguile thy sorrow.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snow in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.