« Happiness is the only profound and lasting antidote to sadness. Or rather than an antidote, which would imply neutralizing or suppressing sadness, which is neither possible nor desirable over time, happiness allows to deal with it an alloy, like two metals that rub shoulders and give an original compound and superior to the two metals that spawned it (so bronze, copper and tin alloy). For example, the sadness and happiness of being parents: the sadness of seeing her grow up, and one day her children leave, is very real; some parents, for that matter, are not recovering well. Often, as a parent, you will feel this sadness even before the departure situation arrives. But if it is accepted and understood, it can also open its eyes and push to enjoy more intelligently the happiness of the presence of its children. To free up more time spent with them now. Their departure, one day, is virtual, even if it is certain; it is not the reality of the moment. The happiness of having them with you is real, and it is the full reality of the moment. This happiness of savoring a presence is thus made stronger by its passage in the bath of sadness, as in the past the photo films in the bath of the revealer ... »

« Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis describes her own fragility in this way: "Since my childhood, I have lacked an emotional epidermis. It's good for my work as a writer - I feel very strong - but bad for my daily balance. Later in the interview, Lewis said, "Even if there was evidence that antidepressants affect my creativity, I would prefer to continue them. When you've been a zombie for months, getting back to writing because of them is a miracle. And being able to write is even more important to me than the quality of what I can write... She knows what she is talking about, she who had to suffer from very severe depressive episodes. »

« Looking at the Statistics of the California Police, it was found that of the five hundred and fifteen people who had been prevented from jumping from a famous bridge (the Golden Gate in San Francisco) between 1937 and 1971, only 6% had subsequently ended up committing suicide: this had been verified later by the studies of their death certificates. And even if we included the deaths reported by accident, assuming that it could have been suicides in disguise, we found no more than 10% of the desperate elders who had disappeared from violent death. This is certainly more than in the general population, but it simply means that 90% of those who had been arrested at the last moment, when they were about to jump, had finally regained the desire to live! Or at least by losing the one to die... »