Depression Quotes

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Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the… — Sylvia Plath
... I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ... — Sylvia Plath
... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst… — Sylvia Plath
A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use. — Sylvia Plath
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless… — Sylvia Plath
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence… — Andrew Solomon
But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is commonly called sanity… — Philip O Ceallaigh
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should… — William Shakespeare
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know. — John Dryden
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my… — Heather Armstrong
But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind? — Unknown Author
Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating.… — Mati Unt
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. — Stephen Fry
The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind. — Peter HÃ¸eg
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off. — Adam Haslett
Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known… — Philip K. Dick
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on… — Lauren Slater
Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified. — Winona Ryder
You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else... — Anthony Quinn

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