Best 16 quotes of Sally Brampton on MyQuotes

As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act

...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability

"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 feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence.

A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to find my way back to a place that doesn't exist.

Believe nothing. Try everything.

I believe, completely, that life is about connection; that nothing else truly matters.

If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.

Letting go is not getting rid of. Letting go is letting be.

Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.

Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

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 obviously physically disabled, we struggle to get things done. Our energy levels are dangerously low. Sometimes, we find it hard to talk. We get angry and frustrated. We fall into despair. We cry, for no apparent reason. Sometimes we find it difficult to eat, or to sleep. Often, we have to go to bed in the afternoon or all day. So do most people with a serious illness. We are no different.

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.

What we resist, will persist.

When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary.