Depression Quotes

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

I'll be the in to your sane.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

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

The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Perspective is the cure for depression.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

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

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

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

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Keep painting your demons.

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negroes had but few pegs to fall.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.

Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.

It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?

So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.