"I wish someone had told me this simple but confusing truth: Even when everything's going your way you can still be sad.  Or anxious.  Or uncomfortably numb.  Because you can't always control your brain or your emotions even when things are perfect."
-Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

"The experience of being alive, it's isness, maybe in relation to the future isn'tness of death or maybe independent of that, or maybe a hybrid of both, can hurt so much sometimes.  Sometimes it still hurts so much to be alive that I want to die.  I am scared of dying and sad about dying and that is part of the hurt."
-So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder

"I think it was then that I first made the connection that underneath my anxiety was a great sadness.  When I suppressed the sadness, I practically shook with existential fear over simply existing.  I was fighting myself.  But when the tears flowed, I felt better."
-So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder

"For someone with anxiety, dramatic situations are, in a way, more comfortable than the mundane.  In dramatic situations the world rises to meet your anxiety.  When there are no dramatic situations available, you turn the mundane into the dramatic."
-So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder

"OK.  OK.  Are you defensive?  Yes.  But everyone is defensive.  And I think it's a bit different for you because you do a lot of work explaining your own behavior and thoughts to yourself so it's extra hard to hear an outsider's point of view and/or someone who spends no time considering her own action (aka someone like me)."
- I Hate Everyone But You by Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin