I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its… — Eric G. Wilson Copy Share Image
It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Mental illness lives all around us every day. I've seen it in other family members, I've seen it in friends, and I've… — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
In late 2011, I watched a documentary by Stephen Fry called 'The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive.' He shared his story… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
A Bipolar Mind. When depression takes over and I can't push through it, I have to close my door and shut the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain… — Diane Wood Middlebrook Copy Share Image
I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“I don't think of it as suicide. I like to think of it as leaving. She didn't want to stay, so she… — Anna Akana Copy Share Image
“When people feel left out, left behind, and left without options, the deep void will be filled by anger and resentment or… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when something changes you... No matter the impact... Where the world no longer beats in time with you.… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
When you pretend for a living and you have to pretend in your private life as well, it's very sad. Because it's… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
My cuts have spread from my wrists to my thighs. One day I'll be covered in red ribbons of blood, but the… — Leslie Copy Share Image
He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Quara's need was and is so great that a person like me could be swallowed up in it a dozen times over.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Cardiac depression is very powerful; it's very black; it's very dark. What I've learned to do is get out of my head… — Robby Benson 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
“...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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
![“I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a day for seven to ten days. Then it would take a few more weeks to get over a vague sort of depression. Then I'd be off on another run.” quote by George Carlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f81/george-carlin-155_cocaine_i-d-go-on-runs-on-cocaine-four-and-five_952823.jpg)
![“The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go to a school to give a speech and the sorority wanted to sign a song, they would send [a person] to my house and tell my wife that I had sex with this woman or that woman.It got to the point where my…” quote by John Carlos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8be/john-carlos-16923_amount_the-government-did-a-lot-of-things-to-us_965079.jpg)
![“But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c6f/elizabeth-gilbert-131_awful_but-he-depression-just-gives-me-that-dar_1617889.jpg)
