Depression Quotes

Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.

Nothing good comes out of depression.

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

I certainly have a very colorful nature, filled with great highs and great lows... in my early adulthood I probably was grappling with some serious depression issues.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low.

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.

I think I suffer from some mild depression.

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out.

It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things.

What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.

I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.

Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.

Evidence is strongly suggesting Bipolar Disorder - previously known as Manic Depression - may be dramatically increasing in modern society.

But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity in the places where I have lived.

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self.

The money cost of the reservoir plan literally fades into insignificance when it is compared with the financial burden which the great depression imposed on the nation.