Depression Quotes · Page 72

I walk in the sunshine to try to feel better but it only magnifies my depression and makes me feel more apart…

— Carole Hanrahan

Emotionally I'm in pain, mentally I'm depressed, spiritually I'm stressed, physically I smile

— Ana

In all my unhappiness I was moving, and suddenly, this moving became an expression, a speaking out

— Mary Wigman

I have treatment-resistant depression and I need to take medication to rebalance my brain chemistry - just like someone with asthma needs…

— Frankie Bridge

I struggled tremendously with anxiety and depression related in part to my sexuality and growing up in a time when to be…

— Darren Hayes

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

— Siri Hustvedt

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

— Harry S Truman

Not all scars shows. Not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can't see, the pain someone feels. So easy to conceal yet in…

— Anonymous

“A depression settled over me, encasing me in a gray haze. I couldn’t skip school anymore; my boyfriend came home from boot…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“If you can begin to see that your thoughts are not the real thing – they’re just thoughts, and as thoughts they…

— Richard Carlson

Fixating on the outcome or needing to know all the details of an upcoming event, such as a trip, causes people to…

— Judith Orloff

I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive…

— Francesca Lia Block

You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen…

— Robert Grudin

“But a whole bottle was what made me feel dead inside. And it worked, all the days stress was gone and I…

— Holly Hood

“There is nothing. Only warm, primordial blackness. Your conscience ferments in it — no larger than a single grain of malt. You…

— Robert Kurvitz

“He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Today's generation has tremendous pressure to perform well at work. And if one can't match up to expectations then it can lead…

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

— Henry David Thoreau

“During depression, negative thoughts find a way to stay in your mind by convincing your brain that they are more important than…

— Jackson MacKenzie

“We can’t deny our journey. We can’t pretend we’re fine when we’re not. All we can do is own it—own our suffering.”

— L.M. Browning

“Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.”

— Jennifer Elisabeth

“I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.”

— Nenia Campbell

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all…

— Siobhan Fahey

“Depression years come back to me now as the happy times, even though we were all struggling. We were happy and didn't…

— Fannie Flagg

“peace was never at the forefront of my mind. a war waged inside of me, but i began to take joy in…

— Mecca-Amirah Jackson

I lie and say I'm busy or 'my parents wont let me' but really I just want to be alone .

— Maddy Marie

Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill…

— Harvey Fierstein

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

— Anne Sexton

“Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.”

— Alyssa Reyans

Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or…

— Anonymous

You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.

— Harold H. Bloomfield

“The effective and sufficient remedy for stress and depression is pure love-therapy, not only traditional and natural medication.”

— Ehsan Sehgal

“If the one who gave me life wants the real me to die... then all I can do is die.”

— Setona Mizushiro

“Quotes and notes to self – Find your inner peace! Don’t be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to…

— Allan Rufus

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a…

— Amy Tan

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.

— Langston Hughes

Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutrals are another form of medication.

— Alexandra Stoddard

Recession leads to depression, from our obsession, of what was once our possession

— Anonymous

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

— Andrew Solomon