20 Short Depression Quotes From Famous Authors "When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone." - Fiona Apple "Depression is the flaw in love . To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair." - Andrew Solomon "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus "There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer." - Barbara King solver "It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that th...