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Depression Quotes by Andrew Solomon
- A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane.…
- 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…
- Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it…
- I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
- Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression…
- It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage.…
- Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not…
- The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end…
- The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.
- Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the…
- Depression means that you have no point of view.
- One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing…
- I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I…
- Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing…
- You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You…
- Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is…
- Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
- One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition…
More Depression Quotes
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to… — Stephen Baldwin
- I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in… — Tyra Banks
- If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a… — Lynda Barry
- In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial… — Ben Bernanke
- Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to… — Bjork