Depression Quotes

2071 Depression quotes by 1126 unique authors

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to… — Robert M. Pirsig
Too long, the earth has been a madhouse! — Friedrich Nietzsche
We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful! — Gustave Flaubert
They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them… — Jeffrey Eugenides
You're never too old to be crazy. — Michael Caine
Moods should be heard but never danced to. — Hugh Prather
Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works… — Marcel Proust
Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are… — Unknown Author
I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ... — Kay Redfield Jamison
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment. — Amy Tan
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time. — Stephanie S. Tolan
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out. — Virginia Heffernan
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board… — Kate Millett
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it… — Andrew Solomon
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul. — Andrew Solomon
That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Addiction, self-sabotage, procrastination, laziness, rage, chronic fatigue, and depression are all ways that we withhold our full participation in the program of life we are… — Charles Eisenstein
They [the Soviets] intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
In the Great Depression, employment was not low because investment was low. Employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial policies changed… — Unknown Author
In terms of my profession, I'm passionate about financial literacy. I want to live in a financially literate society. I want kids to understand the… — Mellody Hobson

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