Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down.… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Every few years when it's been another five years that have passed and I haven't made a film and the depression starts… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“sufferers of depression, who can elect to keep their feelings private, experience chronic, unremitting emotional alienation. Each moment spent “passing” as normal… — David A. Karp Copy Share Image
Bipolar robs you of that which is you. It can take from you the very core of your being and replace it… — Alyssa Reyans Copy Share Image
America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“We all need to say what we think and feel. When we block the normal channels of expression, the emotions find other… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“And yet, here I am. Perceiving everything that is wonderful to be proportionately difficult; everything that is possible an elaborate battle to… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
I'm tired of waiting, calling, being angry, crying, being depressed, scared beng in pain, running from another life, being yeld at, yelling,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
“You too, you took an interest in the world. That was long ago. I want you to cast your mind back to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“And I wonder if any of the road-kill creatures actually wanted to die and threw themselves beneath the speeding wheels. A lethargic… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
“The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself sublimely helpless and impotent I had done living I thought Was ever life so… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“David Lester, a psychology professor at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, has likely thought about suicide longer, harder, and from more… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
Going through depression is a process - it doesn't get cured overnight. You have to really work on yourself, you have to… — Alana Haim Copy Share Image
“For nearly a hundred years, psychiatry has been striving to apply medical model thinking to psychiatric disorders. In this model, the symptoms… — Keith Russell Ablow Copy Share Image
One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
On a visceral level, most of us know what soul loss means. This is the shaman's diagnosis of the root cause of… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Big things, a real crisis, I think I'm pretty good, but this little thing will just wallop me. I think I'm managing… — Andrew Flintoff Copy Share Image
We’ve all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. In contrast, I realized, happiness… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of personal pride. His… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second… — William Styron Copy Share Image
When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Closeness eases the anxiety and depression of believing that no one really cares about you. It softens the frustration and anger that… — Kira Asatryan Copy Share Image
There were nine children in my fathers family and eight in my mothers. My grandparents did the best with what they had.… — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In the field of medicine, Galen, the Alexandrian scientist, propounded a view that is still around, nowadays called 'alternative medicine.'It was taught… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
In the lead-up to the launch of my new book I Was Here, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about depression and… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
“Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“I wish I could tell every single woman with depression or anxiety or who has gotten herself into a situation that she… — Constance Hall Copy Share Image
“Look, I know from the outside it doesn't look so bad... I know I had all the advantages. I know my parents… — Jane Tompkins Copy Share Image
We all go through moments of depression. It's part of being a human. Sometimes it's not circumstantial, what makes you feel that… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually… — Lev Yilmaz Copy Share Image
