Depression Quotes

2071 Depression quotes by 1126 unique authors

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and… — Ruby Wax
Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had… — Daphne Merkin
I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did… — Jenny Lawson
True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to credit… — Ludwig von Mises
Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication. — Marc Maron
Farm animals feel pleasure and sadness, excitement and resentment, depression, fear, and pain. They are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined...they are… — Jane Goodall
I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.… — Patrick Swayze
You may feel depressed, but it can't be so depressing that you can't move. No, I would say that people create in moments when they… — Aaron Copland
There's a fine line between helping others and being a people pleaser, and mistaking one for the other can be hugely detrimental. When we put… — Gabrielle Bernstein
The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it. — William Styron
I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression… — Janet Jackson
I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold… — Brooke Shields
Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece. — Susan Polis Schutz
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole… — Eknath Easwaran
A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic… — Tommy Douglas
Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask… — Jose Gonzalez
Looking after children can be a subtle way of giving up... They become the whole ones, the well ones, the postponement of happiness, the ones… — Edward St Aubyn
When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal is… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession. — Todd G. Buchholz
No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or… — Widad Akrawi
The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be… — Murray Rothbard
Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping… — Jane McGonigal
It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have… — R C Sproul
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can. — Frida Kahlo
Optimism is a tool with a certain clear set of benefits: it fights depression, it promotes achievement and produces better health. — Martin Seligman

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