Depression Quotes

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Depression will always follow any decision to avoid a priority.

I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Time spent in nature is the most cost-effective and powerful way to counteract the burnout and sort of depression that we feel when we sit in front of a computer all day.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Develop a depression.

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.

I don't want anybody to understand what my depression feels like because in order to understand it you have to have been there, and I don't want anybody else to go.

Depression is inertia.

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.

If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering. To climb out of it any other way is simply laying the foundation for the next depression.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

American labor may now look to the future with confidence.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Depression is sadness gone wrong

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Anxiety, depression, and suicide don't discriminate based on how much money you have - though it might make it easier for you to get help.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.