Depression Quotes
2071 Depression quotes by 1126 unique authors
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It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole…
— Frank Bruno
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It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.
— Hugh Laurie
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I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.
— Jay Leno
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There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you…
— Jim Carrey
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With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting…
— Keisha Buchanan
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That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more.…
— Lenny Henry
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I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?
— Melinda Gates
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The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.
— Miriam Toews
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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.…
— Andrew Solomon
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I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows…
— Hugo Wolf
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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…
— Andrew Solomon
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I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into…
— Nicolas Cage
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Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with…
— Paulo Coelho
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My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.
— Unknown Author
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I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.
— Sinead O'Connor
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I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is…
— Spike Milligan
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