...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair… — John Piper Copy Share Image
When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
If a person smiles even in difficult situation. It doesn't mean that he's so strong it only means that person has learned… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we've been in. One of the possibilities about that is that… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“In the throws of depression, one reaches a strange point at which it is impossible to see the line between ones own… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“Moreover, probably owing to excessive self-consciousness, perhaps as the result of the generally unfortunate cast of my personality, there existed between my… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
Me: Why sit there and look sad? You: Life has turned on me. Me: No it hasnt. Others have turned on you.… — Cherise Peters Copy Share Image
“Every morning I sit at the kitchen table over a tall glass of water swallowing pills. (So my hands won’t shake.) (So… — Jeanann Verlee Copy Share Image
If you know someone whos depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isnt a straightforward response to a bad situation.… — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt.… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
“I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
Depression is not an act. Eating disorders are not for fashion. Suicide isn't a cowards escape. Self-harm is not a cry for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I fell into a big pit of black depression. That happens sometimes, when too much shit gets flung at me at once.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Imagine saying to somebody that you have a life-threatening illness, such as cancer, and being told to pull yourself together or get… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“The piece of you that loves a part of me tries its best to hold onto the rest, but my heart is… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
I had so many people in my family with dementia that it felt like it belonged to me in a way. I… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
Deppresion is the mental ,cureless disease that allot of people have but for the ones who don't they have a strong immune… — Paolo Dinicola Copy Share Image
If depression has taught me one thing, it is this: what a rare and beautiful treasure is the simple human gift of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
“My mind warped and twisted, From too many years in a personal hell, You’d think I’d run from triggering emotions, But I’ve… — Frances Woodard Copy Share Image
“When we criticize the suicidal for being selfish, we are actually criticizing them for not enduring their pain with grace and good… — David L. Conroy Copy Share Image
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“She wuz depressed. Yeah, she wuz on stuff for it. Like me. Sometimes it jus' takes you over. It's an illness," she… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
Maybe isn't a very good term... maybe I could give up on you, maybe I could stop loving you, maybe I can… — SangFroid Stalker Copy Share Image
“Freud was fascinated with depression and focused on the issue that we began with—why is it that most of us can have… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The fact is that when you admit that you can’t blame anyone or anything else, you begin to blame yourself. The human… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“I'm waiting for her to say "Craig, what you need to do is X" and for the Shift to occur. I want… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You see the smiles on peoples faces but is it real? Take a look into their eyes and see what hides behind… — Ryan J Turner Copy Share Image
To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me.… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung… — Liz Miller Copy Share Image
“The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do you know why you're so sad all the time? You're counting your worries not your blessings! Of course you'll be sad… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Another study, this one by Dutch researchers, shows that those who live within one kilometer of a park or wooded area suffer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“This is the great lesson the depressive learns: Nothing in the world is inherently compelling. Whatever may be really “out there” cannot… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
