Depression Quotes

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Funk, gospel, blues is all out of slavery times, out of depression, out of sorrow.

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2?

The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.

What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.

Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.

Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.

Comedy is a camouflage for depression.

Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars.

Depression does tremendous damage. Use every ploy you can think of to bring yourself to joy.

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are individuals in their own right.

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.

I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.