Depression Quotes · Page 42

My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.

— Steve Martin

The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be

— Frank Pittman

“It's safer for you to stay with the others,' he said. Safer? He didn't realize. I was already dead.”

— Ruta Sepetys

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

— Jesse Jackson

I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

— Frances McDormand

Don't depress yourself in any moment of life. Live it with a face full of smile. Why waste time in crying when…

— Abhishek Tiwari

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender,…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

Depression isn't something that will ever go away, it'll always come back to haunt you at certain points in your life.

— Anonymous

“It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked…

— Peter Biskind

“This was all an excuse, I think. I was doing fine. I had a 93 average and I was holding my head…

— Ned Vizzini

When people suffer from depression or anxiety or any sort of pain/mental anguish combo, being able to take the power out of…

— Ruston Kelly

“If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It…

— Nenia Campbell

“We all enter into fallow periods in our lives, times of questioning, of crisis, of not-knowing; times of depression, stagnation, terror and…

— Jane Meredith

“And she would like to cry, but she is unable to; and she would like to disappear but she won't; and she…

— Micheline Aharonian Marcom

The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on…

— Andrew Solomon

When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the…

— Kingsley Amis

“You are a warrior in a dark forest, with no compass and are unable to tell who the actual enemy is, So…

— Anonymous

“He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.”

— Nina LaCour

“Depression is possessed by Gravity whereas A deep aspiration fueled by Will can defy any Gravity...”

— Dinesh Kumar

Twitter has actually been here for hundreds of years; back that time, it was called depression.

— Nikhil Saluja

“The formation of a herd is a significant victory and advance in the struggle against depression.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I've struggled with depression in my life and sort of the way that the depression itself becomes an addiction.

— Joanna Going

Manic depression in general is something that runs in my family, and it's something that I battle with.

— Laura Jane Grace

“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”

— Harry S. Truman

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

— Dennis Lehane

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

— Jane McGonigal

I cut myself to numb the pain that you left me in. I cut cause I'm tired of the hurt. I get…

— Mary

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

— Anonymous

“Depression is real. It happens. We go through it. Hold onto yourself in those moments.”

— Avijeet Das

“Life can sometimes get the best of you but your state of mind determines your outcome.”

— Sanjo Jendayi

You used to be the reason why I smile every morning, now you're the reason why I cry at night.

— Anonymous

“Actually travel is the opposite of depression. Depression is a curling inward, and travel is an opening outward.”

— Andrew Solomon

With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd…

— Keisha Buchanan

“innumerable studies have demonstrated that depression runs much higher in people who have low cholesterol.22”

— David Perlmutter

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what…

— Matthew Desmond

The saddest thing is when you are feeling real down, you look around and realize that there is no shoulder for you.

— Anonymous

“I fought and fought until I lost the battle, then I fought some more until I lost the war”

— Dean Mackin

“Human beings experience sadness because they want what is beyond human ability – absolute control and an immortal life.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most…

— Henry Wriston