Depression Quotes

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...

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, a...

Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she w...

My blackness is spreading, Alice. I’ve been seeing and hearing things that can’t be there or anywher...

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, c...

The feeling of the wind, the sound of rushing water, the sense of sunlight breaking through the clou...

I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be ...

That's the most important thing for a sickness like ours: a sense of trust. If I put myself in this ...

That's how lonely and sad I was. Dying is not that hard. Lime the air being sucked slowly out of a r...

I was a vacant room. Inside, the music produces only a dry, hollow echo.

What i'm trying to say is this. A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certai...

How can I put this? There's a king of gap between what I think is real and what's really real. I get...

Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je ne serai,...

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

I don't know why we live—the gift of life comes to us from I don't know what source or for what purp...

To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a t...

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wound...

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my s...

The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which ...

The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this e...

So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but...

…for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is ...

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited a...

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusio...

Like an attack this melancholy comes from time to time. I don't know at what intervals, and slowly c...

If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.

He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.

If that made him heavy company sometimes, so be it. Who decreed that life was to be one long rowdy m...

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...

A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to ...

if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, str...

To fall in the void as I fell: none of you knows what that means… I went down into the void, to the ...

If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoan...

I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I ...

This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling is...

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

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being a...

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness...

If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things ref...

Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads.

I feel impossibly sad and like I'll die, what can we do?

I am a sick man - oh, not my body. It is my soul, my brain. I seem to have lost all values. I care f...

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies? 'Sister Sonja often asked me, as though to unde...

I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole str...

In a daydream I used to have, all these places were points of happiness to me; all these places were...

Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If yo...

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony...

If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it ma...

Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was...

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed t...

I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned" - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of th...

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that qu...

He: What’s the matter with you?Me: Nothing.Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly n...

Misery is a no U-turns, no stopping road. Travel down it pushed by those behind, tripped by those in...

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

This was an adequate enough performance, as improvisations go. The only problem was that my entire e...

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested -...

As it happens I am comfortable with the Michael Laskis of this world, with those who live outside ra...

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understoo...

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the...

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in...

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?