Depression Quotes

my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "...

So be careful when you bend over.

Hell was what you made it

Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over fo...

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life...

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happen...

I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.

There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose in most lives) when I have felt for a time as ...

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

Look at Charlie Brown's face. Would you please hold still a minute Charlie Brown? I want Linus to st...

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?''Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance...

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and...

John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall.But I don't want t...

John says I musn't lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to...

I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actu...

There came an awful day when I picked up the phone and knew at once, as one does with some old frien...

Does he know about me? George wonders; do any of them? Oh yes, probably. It wouldn't interest them. ...

By the time it has gotten dressed, it has become he; has become already more or less George — though...

Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to s...

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is ou...

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war o...

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of ...

The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a...

The days passed, the weeks. But everything seemed to have fused, gone into a conglomerated mass. He ...

I had great Reason to consider it as a Determination of Heaven, that in this desolate Place, and in ...

This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, ...

The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ...

The depressed person was in terrible andunceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing o...

When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you j...

It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... If a person in physical pain has a hard tim...

The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote ...

When people call it [depression] I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds li...

Its emotional character … is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which ...

Kate Gompert’s always thought of this anhedonic state as a kind of radical abstracting of everything...

I am not sure whether you could call this abuse, but when I was (long ago) abroad in the world of dr...

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside o...

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realiza...

Lately, though, he'd just been tired in general. Tired of people. Tired of books and TV and the nigh...

But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would ...

She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth...

Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her...

...perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so th...

I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules se...

Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, lik...

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting press...

This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nause...

Do you have any idea why you might be feeling better?”“No, not really,” I said curtly. Better wasn’t...

Who knew it was in my power to make anyone so happy? Or that I could ever be so happy myself? My moo...

[T]hough the darkness sometimes lifted just enough so I could construe my surroundings, familiar sha...

I hated being around people, couldn’t pay attention to what anyone was saying, couldn’t talk to clie...

The first ten million years were the worst," said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they we...

Thus with continued concentration and the expenditure of enormous amounts of energy he tried to keep...

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with youall through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed,Sharing-oh,...

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is a...

I want to figure out how people can go on with their lives when mine has changed so much. I want to ...

Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framewor...

The picture of helpless indolence she calls herselfsublimely helpless and impotentI had done living ...

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For th...

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

I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couc...

But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on ...

I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with yo...

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For th...

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,And Mourners to and froKept treading – treading – till it seemedThat S...

He’s afraid," Graber said."Yes, naturally. But he’s a good dog.""And a man-eater.""We’re all that.""...

Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and bet...

In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refin...

I saw that for a long time I had not liked people and things, but only followed the rickety old pret...

This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I...

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as d...

There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble than...

In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it ...

That is how I experience life, as apocalypse and cataclysm. Each day brings an increasing inability ...

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can...

To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the car...

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a p...

It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or f...

I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do ...

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imag...

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or t...

You are rotting away, you are falling to pieces. What are you? A bag of filth. Now turn around and l...

A tramp, therefore, is a celibate from the moment when he takes to the road. He is absolutely withou...

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It w...

He cries behind his wall, I think, and no one knows, not even he. And no one will ever know, and in ...

Depression is rage spread thin.

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder ...

She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. H...

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a d...

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. L...

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the m...

Leon was weary of loving without any result; moreover he was beginning to feel that depression cause...