Winona Ryder

I don’t regret opening up about what I went through [with depression]. Because, it sounds really cliche, but I have had women come up to me and say, ‘It meat so much to me.’

It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn’t even think. That’s the whole trouble. When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think.

There’s not shame in dealing with these things. There’s no shame in having to fight everyday.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

I’ll drink water. Sometimes tomato juice, which I like. Sometimes orange juice, which I like. I’ll drink different things. But the Coke or Pepsi boosts you up a little.

It’s not just people who can’t find a job, or can’t fit in in society that struggle with depression sometimes.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

You don’t see the mental illness: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst. But it’s there. Why do you need to prove it?

Yes. I am mentally ill. I’m not embarrassed about it. And I have written my best work not when flirting with the brink, but when treating my chronic health problem with consistency and care.

I don’t regret opening up about what I went through [with depression]. Because, it sounds really cliche, but I have had women come up to me and say, ‘It meat so much to me.’

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

Not only is it a part of my life, I need to bring awareness to the severity of Lyme disease.

[on depression] This is a disorder that affects millions of people and I am on of them. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.