Sally Brampton quotes

“"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."”
-- Sally Brampton

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

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“...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability”
-- Sally Brampton

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“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”
-- Sally Brampton

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“I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.”
-- Sally Brampton

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“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.”

“Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.21

“You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.”

“As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.”

“As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.”

“Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.”