Depression Quotes

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.

Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.

Someday, beyond the clouds and all the world's wrongs, there will be love, compassion and justice, and we shall all understand.

No man is free who cannot control himself.

My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

Depression is anger turned inward.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.

My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing.

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

Living faith is above circumstances; no delays can discourage it, no loss of friends or depression in trade can touch it.

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.