Stephen Fry Quotes about Depression

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It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Stephen Fry

Beauty, Depression, Laughter

Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.93, Random House

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Stephen Fry

Depression, Bipolar, Mind

"Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive". www.imdb.com. 2006.

It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

Stephen Fry

Depression, Being Depressed, Lethargy

There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

Stephen Fry

Depression, Wall, Black

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.

Stephen Fry

Depression, May, Mental Illness

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Stephen Fry

Depression, Weather, Being Depressed

Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.

Stephen Fry

Depression, Giving, Tears