Depression Quotes

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rot...

The next morning I told Mom I couldn't go to school again. She asked what was wrong. I told her, “Th...

I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myse...

Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apath...

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...

He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The dan...

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling wh...

There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there ...

Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. ...

but the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him t...

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than t...

I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erect...

There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be g...

My heart is heavy, she thought. It’s not just a saying. It is what is—heavy, a great stone lodged in...

What we perceive as dejection over the futility of life is sometimes greed, which the monastic tradi...

In its severe forms, depression paralyzes all of the otherwise vital forces that make us human, leav...

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect ...

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is...

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce...

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psych...

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damag...

We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forc...

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and ex...

No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pai...

Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The re...

When both she and I had to deal with our respective demons, my sister saw the darkness as being with...

God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come wit...

Depression, somehow, is much more in line with society's notions of what women are all about: passiv...

When I am high I couldn’t worry about money if I tried. So I don’t. The money will come from somewhe...

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that ble...

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing thes...

Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of pe...

Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? A...

... and she was awed to see that vibrant life still struggled to thrive despite such destruction.

My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In ord...

She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessn...

For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over a...

Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't wan...

What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, ...

Aunt Léonie who, after the death of her husband, my Uncle Octave, no longer wished to leave, first C...

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing ove...

There are days when I can hardly make it out of bed. I find it an effort to speak. I measure progres...

Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the c...

They were wrong about the sun.It does not go down into the underworld at night.The sun leaves merely...

Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?

Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues th...

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

Since you act as though God is dead, I wanted to join you in the mourning."The reply of Martin Luthe...

Right now, I've got the weight of several worlds on my shoulders. My best friend is living in a canc...

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being wit...

The emotional, loving, moody child had small chance of developing into a happy woman. Had she as a g...

Cross-legged on the floor, you drink, hoping each mouthful will hurt; occasional flurries of spastic...

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the ...

It seems that by the time the singular beauty of a flower in bloom can no longer pierce the veil of ...

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mis...

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying pa...

Then, after showing the pill and some graphics, those same people appeared again, looking happier.Th...

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I...

Following the death of his wife, Sam Johnson wrote to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton, "I have ever s...

It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moment...

The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget s...

The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold ...

There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt a...

In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howlin...

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.