Depression

"The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality"

"Depression is the flaw in love.
There’s no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss.  And that sector of despair can be the engine of intimacy."

"You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a grey veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood.  You think that the veil has been taken away – the veil of happiness, and that now you’re seeing truly."

"A lot of the time what they are expressing is not illness but insight.  And one comes to think that what’s really extraordinary is that most of us know about those existential questions, and they don’t distract us very much."