Quotes by Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

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One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you. — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Hope is only the love of life. — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are. — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to st — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
We are not easy to help. Nor are we easy to be around. Nobody with a serious illness is easy to be around. Although not — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Imagine saying to somebody that you have a life-threatening illness, such as cancer, and being told to pull yourself tog — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
A friend called the other day.'How are you?' she said.The sun was shining, the sky a merciless blue. It was only eleven — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear. — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how t — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Wanting to die (or 'suicidal ideation'as the experts would have it) goes hand in hand with the illness. It is a symptom — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to fi — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
The terrible truth about depression, and the part of its nature that terrifies me the most, is that it appears to operat — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti. — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
I would not wish depression on anybody. And yet, it taught me a lot. I have not become suddenly mawkishly grateful for m — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
It is two years since I emerged from depression and I no longer want myself dead. I want myself alive. I am no longer my — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
Everyone else has a work party,'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad. — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression
I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; a man who gave up his seat for me on the bus, a woman who hel — Sally Brampton, Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression