Sunbathing in the Rain Quotes

“When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you.”
― Gwyneth Lewis, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book About Depression

“The crucial thing here is not to listen to your mind. Your mind has got its basic communication lines crossed. If you try to fly in this flak you will shoot down your own aircraft. Keep close to yourself...fly under your own radar. Let the anti-aircraft guns discharge their ammunition into the plaid sky. Steal home, undetected even by yourself. Whatever you do, in this state, don't think.”
― Gwyneth Lewis, Sunbathing in the Rain

“Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.”
― Gwyneth Lewis, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book About Depression

“Your positive thinker may do well in suburbia but I'd rather be with a lucid depressive in the Arctic, where survival depends on precision and not fooling yourself about your chances on the ice.”
― Gwyneth Lewis, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book About Depression

“The wordlessness of depression is a galling experience. You can't phone your friends, writing an e-mail is beyond you, you can't put pen to paper. The disease is a crash course in meaninglessness, lack of structure, the collapse of form.”
― Gwyneth Lewis, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book About Depression

“Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If you don't obey it as a force in your life, it will tear you to pieces.”
― Gwyneth Lewis, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book About Depression

“I could talk to friends who phoned to see how I was only for a few minutes. However pleased I was to hear from them, soon my voice went flat and I wanted to go back to sleep. It was beyond me how other people could talk so much.”
― Gwyneth Lewis, Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book on Depression