Depression Quotes

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.

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.

Anger is remembered pain, fear is anticipated pain, guilt is self directed pain, depression is depletion of energy. Cure-return to love& joy

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself.

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.

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

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

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

If killing yourself is not an option anymore, you have to sink into the darkness instead, and make something out of it.

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot down my throat and catapulted me into a world called sane.

Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I don't agree with this romantic fantasy that people who suffer from depression are more likely to be artists. I find that I am more creative when I am happy actually.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

Depression effects all of us in different ways, people even kill themselves, but why? You gain no satisfaction and you ruin people's lives.

When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

Depressions aren't good but the depression mentality is good.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

People don't know how to deal with stress and depression, so they're nasty to other people because it makes them feel better about themselves.

Thinking you've had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you've been run over by a bus. Trust me - you know when you've got depression.

Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.

A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.