The Long Night Quotes

“It’s like when runners collapse at the end of a marathon. Their exhaustion makes sense if you’ve seen the race. But with depression, it might not be evident from the outside how much you’ve endured up till the moment of collapse. You might not even realize it yourself. It takes miles of running hard to get to the point where your body completely shuts down. Many of us have been running hard for years, pushing ourselves to our very limit. We’ve kept calm and carried on, and now we just can’t anymore. Really, it’s miraculous that we’ve made it this far considering all we’ve been carrying.”
― Jessica Kantrowitz, The Long Night: Readings and Stories to Help You through Depression

“You have not yet fully found your place in your community. Your way of being present to your community may require times of absence, prayer, writing, or solitude. ..... Your community needs you, but maybe not as a constant presence . . . your community also needs your creative absence.[6]”
― Jessica Kantrowitz, The Long Night: Readings and Stories to Help You through Depression