Deep pain Quote by Alice Miller

“Although the outward picture of depression is quite the opposite of that of grandiosity and has a quality that expresses the tragedy of the…

— Alice MIller, The Drama of the gifted child

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

— Alice Miller

“Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating intellect—as to…

— William Styron

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.” At the time Switters had disputed…

— Tom Robbins

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

— Jonathan Franzen

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

— Nicolas Chamfort

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating…

— William Styron

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of…

— William Styron

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

— Joan Robinson

“For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness…

— Nell Casey

“Depression, I have argued, stems partly from an overcommitment to the self and an undercommitment to the common good. This”

— Martin E.P. Seligman