Depression Quotes · Page 47

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

— Sinead O'Connor

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's…

— Robert McKee

During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.

— Ella Baker

I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it…

— Adrien Brody

“Silent battles are the heaviest burdens; they crush even the strongest souls in ways no one can see.”

— Abhysheq Shukla

The fact that insomnia is associated with depression suggests that sleep might help us deal with emotionally stressful or otherwise disruptive events.

— Maria Konnikova

Sometimes the strongest people in the morning are the ones that cry themselves to sleep at night.

— Anmol Andore

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the…

— Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as…

— Ella Baker

And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms.…

— Stephen King

We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd…

— Robert Stack

“In a depression, I’d imagine rich people try to dress like they’re poor, and poor people try to dress like they’re rich.…

— Jarod Kintz

Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are pathologically ill: they cannot help it. It just comes from within because…

— Jaggi Vasudev

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I…

— Jack Dee

Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long…

— Philip K. Dick

“...Sometimes they open it up like a package in the presence of a person they can talk to,' she said. 'Someone they…

— Julia Schumacher

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

— Eric Maisel

“No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.”

— Deborah Curtis

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.

— Ben Domenech

“People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.”

— J.S.B. Morse

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is…

— Paulo Coelho

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

— Dalai Lama

I stare at my reflection in the mirror with repulsion and I can just manage to see the fear, tears and anger…

— Anonymous

Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really…

— Andrew Solomon

But it's not just a cut, or a tear, or a lie. It's 'just one more' until you die

— Anonymous

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

— Carroll O'Connor

The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options,…

— Art Linkletter

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

— Dan Millman

“Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.”

— Chris Prentiss

Like a tool being used by a killer, she lost her virginity to him who is called: the heart breaker.

— Daniel Neuhaus

Loneliness is the worse kind of drug out there because it will kill you faster than anything else!

— Valerie Scott

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

No one noticed your struggle No one knows what it's like How you hold in emotion While holding in life

— UnSpokendreams

It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I…

— Anne Sexton

“In one sense, depression can feel even worse than cancer, because most cancer patients feel hope as well as self-esteem.”

— David D. Burns

The feeling where you don't know whether to punch the wall or cry in a dark room.

— Purvish Gandhi

“One of the strongest lifts you can achieve is yourself. So lift yourself up from depression and lift yourself up to greatness.”

— Angel Moreira

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you're not surrounded by idiots.

— Anonymous

“The scariest thing about depression is how normal it starts to feel. How silence becomes your native language. How disappearing starts to…

— Chloe Holland Dicks

I've been taking medication for depression and anxiety ever since I was a teenager and I've had treatment for both.

— Olly Alexander