Depression Quotes

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What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to me mentally, is… — Glenn Beck
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. — Emile M. Cioran
How can you hide from what never goes away? — Heraclitus
So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but… — Harry Reid
How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become a party that… — Rand Paul
When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It… — Tina Yothers
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification… — Kay Redfield Jamison
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad… — Stephen Fry
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm… — Ned Beatty
Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in… — Carrie Fisher
What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an… — Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain,… — Anthony Storr
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on me it is… — Robert Lowell
I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts… — Charley Pride
Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during… — Aaron T. Beck
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. — Alan Lightman
I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person. — Ben Moody
I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon. — Buzz Aldrin

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