Depression Quotes

2071 Depression quotes by 1126 unique authors

As powerful as the power of positive thoughts are, depression biologically interferes with the brain's ability to maintain a positive thought for any period of… — Harold H. Bloomfield
There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the… — Peter McWilliams
..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting… — Peter McWilliams
Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can say to a… — Harold H. Bloomfield
That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden — Peter McWilliams
In a nutshell: Medical research has shown that Hypericum is an effective treatment for depression-as successful as prescription anti-depressions in a majority of patients. — Harold H. Bloomfield
The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the… — Peter McWilliams
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we… — Victor Hugo
The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir… — Sam Keen
Depression is sadness gone wrong — Lewis Wolpert
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. — Bell Hooks
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… — Andrew Solomon
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… — Andrew Solomon
I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get… — Marian Keyes
Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place… — Richard Russo
I don't worry. I'm more stoical. Of course I have insecurities. I fear getting older. I fear death and illness. I'm not prone to depression,… — David Thewlis
Depression effects all of us in different ways, people even kill themselves, but why? You gain no satisfaction and you ruin people's lives. — Shannon Leto
Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook. — Ralph Abernathy
Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer — Ricky Gervais
The simple solution for disappointment depression Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going. — Peter McWilliams
Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a… — Richard Yates
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn… — Marianne Faithfull
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Nothing good comes out of depression. — Kay Redfield Jamison

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