A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person).

The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.

To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.

Equanimity is often mistaken for depression.