Depression Quotes

2071 Depression quotes by 1126 unique authors

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love. — Helen Fisher
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the… — Helen Fisher
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his… — C.S. Lewis
To perceive is to suffer. — Aristotle
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But… — Oliver Sacks
There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while… — Nikki Giovanni
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. — Sylvia Plath
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. — Erik Larson
In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no… — Soren Kierkegaard
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God. — Victor Hugo
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Yet for all the depression no one ever quit. When someone quit, we couldn't believe it. 'I'm becoming a rafting instructor on the Colorado River,'… — Joshua Ferris
My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression. — Philip K. Dick
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you… — Marcus Aurelius
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life. — Terry Pratchett
Work is always an antidote to depression. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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