Depressed people Quote by Anna Funder

“According to studies, clinically depressed individuals have a more accurate grasp of reality than the average person. We tell ourselves lies and layer falsehoods…

— wildbow

“What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted…

— Robin S. Sharma

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it…

— Helen Keller

“They say that depression makes you see everything in a negative light. I disagree. It makes you see things for what they are. It…

— Tabitha Suzuma

Definitely not-you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up.It makes us sick." Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Jonathan Franzen

I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

— Paul Fussell

“It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view…

— Anthony Marais

A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.

— Joan Robinson

“The point that in the absence of birth nobody exists who can be deprived of happiness is terribly conspicuous. For optimists, this fact plays…

— Thomas Ligotti

A miserable person says, 'Let's be positive today!' It's reassuring themselves that things won't get worse. A truly positive person is not thinking only…

— Andrew Cervantes