I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Just a cut Just a scratch What's that mark? It was just the cat. Just an excuse ... Just another lie What's… — Patience Copy Share Image
The happiness state, when examined more closely, turns out not to be a point but a range, with contentment at the bottom… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
“Do normal people do this...? Do they get happy and sad at different times? I could be ok one day and then… — Sara Ellie MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I am a poet writing of my pain. I am a person living a life of shame. I am your daughter hiding… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that she was sad—sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Sylvia had begun her month in New York with princessy pomp and fanfare….Her departure on June 27 was entirely different. She left… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation;… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“I’m not interested in Bob Marley telling me to ‘lively up’ myself. The only music that satisfies me is Nine Inch Nails… — Kiera Van Gelder Copy Share Image
“You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“If you want to make a real difference for psychiatric illness like depression, you have to do something before the kids get… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every day you feel like you can't control the forces affecting your fate-your job,the government,your addiction,your depression,your money. So you stage micro-revolts.… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
“Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“To all whom the cloud of depression has not yet lifted, there is hope. Let’s walk together through these pages on a… — Gregory L. Jantz Copy Share Image
I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
I had little breakdowns and depression that would last for three days. I also started suffering from panic attacks. I used to… — Tulisa Copy Share Image
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents… — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
“A learned society of our day, no doubt with the loftiest of intentions, has proposed the question, “Which people, in history, might… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
“The night was blustery and raw, with a chill wet wind blowing down the avenues, and when Rose and I met Françoise… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“There is nothing for you in this bleak hospital room but a cold and empty nothingness that has no answers, can give… — Rebecca James Copy Share Image
“In 1965, a psychologist named Martin Seligman started shocking dogs. He was trying to expand on the research of Pavlov--the guy who… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
Trust me, I know how it feels I know exactly how it feels to cry in the shower So no one can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What do you do when everyone in the world has given up on you? As if there is no where else to… — Paige Smith Copy Share Image
“With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Kate Gompert’s always thought of this anhedonic state as a kind of radical abstracting of everything, a hollowing out of stuff that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Depression is like a storm. It's starts slow, Eating away at you slowly, Then becomes stronger, And causes more damage. Then it… — Patience Hardy Copy Share Image
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“Lionel said as much to me once, how so many of the same people who are quick to empathize with physical disabilities… — Brandy Colbert Copy Share Image
“...those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Bad habits can be ingrained in our neurons as easily as good ones. Pascual-Leone observes that “plastic changes may not necessarily represent… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Number one, we have to talk about mental illnesses. Number two, you can actually address things from a purer and honest direct… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
