Depression Quotes

Who can tell? It may be that there must always be growth - and that if one does not grow kinder and ...

From that altitude, the world looked calm and vivid and possible. But by the time we landed at Prest...

When you feel sad, you are participating in a venerable experience, to which I, this monument, am de...

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romant...

Our “increasing mental sickness” may find expression in neurotic symptoms. These symptoms are conspi...

But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining an...

While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry I write now and then for no other purpo...

The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind...

Today it is hardly possible for any group to remain so isolated from others who have different value...

Although the outward picture of depression is quite the opposite of that of grandiosity and has a qu...

When it is all too much; when the news is so bad meditation itself feels useless, and a single life ...

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. W...

Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

When we are aware about our body’s sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress thro...

I was trapped in an awful spiral of insecure narcissism

I don't think I knew what depression was. I knew I felt funny sometimes and I was different. I think...

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the ha...

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful tha...

Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weake...

I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.

I did not want to sit on the roof, though I was also aware that if I didn’t allow myself the relief ...

You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is...

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at wh...

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally impor...

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depressio...

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital eve...

If real experience has triggered your descent into depression, you have a human yen to understand it...

Life itself seemed so alarmingly exigent, to require so much of the self. It was too difficult to re...

There is a moment, if you trip or slip, before your hand shoots out to break your fall, when you fee...

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital eve...

There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through ago...

People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous m...

Since I am writing a book about depression, I am often asked in social situations to describe my own...

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.

Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at th...

She was tranquil, but it was with the quietness of exhausted grief, not of resignation; and she look...

It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will t...

And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real j...

You have a light in you that’s almost blinding. But in me there’s only darkness. Sometimes I think i...

Depression is boring, I thinkand I would do better to makesome soup and light up the cave.

exI feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot des...

I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot descr...

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went o...

I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with ...

The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, ...

Ivanov: With a heavy head, with a slothful spirit, exhausted, overstretched, broken, without faith, ...

Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home.Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't...

Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did... You stay ...

For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New...

There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me ...

In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.

The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale gr...

Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of...

One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of hap...

That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any mo...

You can talk about depression as a "chemical imbalance" all you want, but it presents itself as an e...

I looked hard out the window and understood suddenly that what I saw was full of color. A watercolor...

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens wh...

There is no point in treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad...Sadness is mo...

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There no...

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Yet they are the outcome of l...

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing - a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to P...

And then depression set in....

The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the tim...

a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, ea...

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down t...

The blues don’t jump right on you. They come creeping. Shortly after my sixtieth I slipped into a de...

Antidepression medication is temperamental. Somewhere around fifty-nine or sixty I noticed the drug ...

Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hop...

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. T...

... I have always found that the Trough periods of the human undulation provide excellent opportunit...

Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.

One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering ...

Why not risk your life, if you don't want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you'll never be ...

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy - all those things matte...

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers - lovely, but dead.

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care...

It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As...

Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa:...

Will stared down at his hands. "My whole life wrecked, destroyed..." "You're seventeen," Magnus said...

I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead...

Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

Julian had heard stories-whispers really-of other Shadowhunter children who thought or felt differen...

All their lives Nath had understood, better than anyone, the lexicon of their family, the things the...

I sat back down and poured a glass of wine. I left my door open. The moonlight came in with the soun...

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...