We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life,… — John Green Copy Share Image
“...my big depression. For six months I languished at the bottom of a deep hole, like the shaft of a waterless well,… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“An emotional outbreak may follow, accompanied by strong, legitimate reproaches, and only after this outbreak will a new link with repressed experience… — Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child Copy Share Image
You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
I was really inspired by photos of the "Forgotten Man" during the Depression, when men were wearing the last suit that they… — Autumn de Wilde Copy Share Image
Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures,… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human,… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened… — Sue Augustine Copy Share Image
“The days and the light feel like brief moments of torture, put here to remind us of what we don’t have any… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
People think depression is sadness. People think depression is crying. People thin depression is dressing in black. But peopple are wrong. Depression… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I felt sure of this. However much I loved him, and as beautiful as the world was, none of it was powerful… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“If there is a tendency for the right hemisphere to be more sorrowful and prone to depression, this can, in my view,… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Even if medication relieves some of the burden of depression, it may be functioning like aspirin. That is, it takes away some… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse. Energyless, he felt… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I dye my jeans jet black once a week, but they never seem dark enough. I bleach my hair bright white twice… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
I can only speak from my own experience, and I would say that the depression I experienced feels like a chemical change.… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
“Some people think mental illness is a matter of mood, a matter of personality. They think depression is simply a form of… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Like you're taking the universe by the throat and saying, look, I know I can never be as big as you, but… — Darshana Suresh Copy Share Image
Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
“But that’s depression, isn’t it? It makes you selfish. It…it shrinks your world down. Like you’re inside a tornado or something. How… — Rebecca Rogers Maher Copy Share Image
“Foreboding” might have been the appropriate word. “Dread.” The PROMISE of fear. It was tangible fear... smellable... the stale odor soaking into… — Jake Vander-Ark Copy Share Image
“Mental health, contemporary psychiatrists tell us, consists of the ability to adapt to the inevitable stresses and misfortunes of life. It does… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you’ve… — Heidi Reagan Copy Share Image
“the primordial artifact- of the Kaaba of canonical economics today is the claim that the free market somehow caused, and failed to… — Axel Kaiser Copy Share Image
“I had no doubt that Tiny thought he got depressed, but that was probably because he had nothing to compare it to.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you can incorporate things that you've experienced in your life and use that. And, other times, you just know what that… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
“My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way.… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
She says shes fine but shes going insane. She says she feels good but shes in a lot of pain. She says… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For six days I didn’t get up except to make a cup of tea, or fry an egg, or lie in the… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
“Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
“those who looked at the pictures of cars, electronics, and jewelry rated themselves higher in depression and anxiety, less interested in social… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He was a simple honest man. He never strayed, He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid. And… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
“Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“As soon as things get difficult, I walk away. That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image