Depression Quotes

And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too da...

You're fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it's obvious you're nobody. You hav...

Because . . . most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or w...

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, ...

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are t...

What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I mi...

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

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the fi...

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--henc...

Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it ...

I wonder if I have ever actually been happy. People have told me, really more times than I can remem...

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idi...

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding...

All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is ...

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretc...

Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrifi...

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which ...

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know ho...

I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that ro...

At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole bo...

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somew...

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and...

We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us,...

As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance ...

Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the so...

Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the s...

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-p...

Do you not hear the constant victory,in the human footraceof time, slow as fire,sure, and thick and ...

Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.Larry: Depressives don't. They ...

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as ...

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I felt as ...

You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is...

Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go throu...

I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unh...

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

Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand now how you suffer when you’re depresse...

Caught in the center of a soundless fieldWhile hot inexplicable hours go byWhat trap is this? Where ...

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very stra...

Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all...

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the my...

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

People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tr...

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling...

I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and y...

Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despit...

My education in the public schools of New York City between 1932 and 1944 was an excellent preparati...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

The orange turns to dull bronze light and continues to show what it has shown all day long, but now ...

Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is wh...

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim...

He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence, that he never comprehended the des...

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,Which finds no n...

IIA grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear,      A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief,      W...

Just start somewhere," Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits betwee...

My stepfather, John O'Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of ca...

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

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the ro...

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scanda...

The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. I...

I’ve found that it’s of some help to think of one’s moods and feelings about the world as being simi...

Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is s...

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straig...

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...

I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less ...

Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the wor...

The message of this lecture is that black holes ain’t as black as they are painted. They are not the...

It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was...

Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further...

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pl...

When she enters the room she immediately shuts the window and draws the shade with a quick, hard pul...

Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled re...

Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to ...

I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force any...

the evil thing is inside, not out.

Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

I'm ordered to a week of bed rest and I don't object because I feel so lousy. Not just my heel and m...

I’m not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. The pain ...

Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel ...

I'm left staring up at the night sky the only roof left because to many memories are drowning me.

I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against ...

I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but...

I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, crea...

I’ll never speak to God again.

Poppies in JulyLittle poppies, little hell flames,Do you do no harm?You flicker. I cannot touch you....

I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too fu...

LADY LAZARUSI have done it again.One year in every tenI manage it--A sort of walking miracle, my ski...

They had to call and callAnd pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.--From the poem "Lady Lazarus"...

I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its m...

I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned upand be utterly empty.How free...