“Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When I was hospitalized in 1992 with severe clinical depression I thought I was the only one. I didn't know of one… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong.… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“Anxiety and depression, and the physical symptoms they cause, are merely distractions and smokescreens to “protect” you from dangers, which are usually,… — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
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
People who have never dealt with depression think it's just being sad or being in a bad mood. That's not what depression… — Dan Reynolds Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how much I struggled after the golden slam. I had actual depression. I hadn't seen my family -… — Dylan Alcott Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the relevant truth- and it's one whose existence was apparent to my wife, and I'm sure to much of the world,… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Many people don’t seem to want a detailed explanation of the changes in brain chemistry, of the depletion of neurotransmitters that we… — Dr Stefan Cembrowicz Copy Share Image
In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Depression is not madness, it's just depression, the loser version, the low-energy response to bad stuff that happens in your life. When… — Ana Menendez Copy Share Image
“He's following me... He needs to have a secret but he can´t help telling the heat is going out of me. The… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“The last time I’d been unwell, suicidally depressed, whatever you want to call it, the reactions of my friends and family had… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
“It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this… — Lindsey Stirling Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
I know it seems like I'm this strong person who can get though anything, but inside I'm fragile. I've had so many… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She experiences a depression so deep it is tranquilizing, she eats whatever he tells her to eat, she experiences no more ownership… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so… — Rosalynn Carter Copy Share Image
“But depression wasn't the word. This was a plunge encompassing sorrow and revulsion far beyond the personal: a sick, drenching nausea at… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life.… — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
“Do not despise your inner world. That is the first and most general piece of advice I would offer… Our society is… — Martha Nussbaum 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
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
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
...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
“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
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
“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
Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy,… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
