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Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

— Jane McGonigal

“Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down, so to…

— Byung-Chul Han

I think of depression as the mechanism that pushes down the pain of that loss. It tries to distance us from the loss but…

— Tara Brach

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically.…

— Tony Campolo

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

— James Hillman

Depression is a physical illness.

— Terry Bradshaw

“In short, and this is a highly important point to grasp, the depression is the “recovery” process, and the end of the depression heralds…

— Murray N. Rothbard

Depression is inertia.

— Wayne Dyer

When you're depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up,…

— O. Carl Simonton

“Patients who develop ME/CFS often lose the natural antidepressant effect of exercise, feeling worse after exercise rather than better. Patients may have a drop…

— Bruce M. Carruthers

“Depression ... involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course…

— Edward T. Welch

Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive…

— May Sarton