* … the best thing for being sad… is to learn something.
o Merlin to Arthur in, The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White

* People here [in Congress] often think of depression as being sad; no matter what I tell other legislators, they don't know. They don't understand how it is emptiness, how it is a vast nothing.
o U.S. Representative Lynn N. Rivers; quoted in The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

* That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.
o Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American author. Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, September 13, 1929. Selected Letters, edited by Carlos Baker (1981)

* In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant.... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known—no wonder, then, that I return the love.
o Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish existentialist philosopher. “Diapsalmata,” Vol. 1, Either/Or (1843, trans. 1987).

* The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
o Leonard Cohen (b. 1934), Canadian musician, poet, novelist. International Herald Tribune, 4th November 1988

* Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
o Steven Wright

* If you feel sad just feel your heart beat.
o Swami Raj