Depression Quotes
2071 Depression quotes by 1126 unique authors
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I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t…
— Susanna Kaysen
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the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could.…
— Eoin Colfer
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Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something…
— Douglas Coupland
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Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction…
— Theodore Kaczynski
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Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
— Steven Wright
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I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever…
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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I never felt like that before. Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand how you suffer now when you're depressed; I…
— Philip K. Dick
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So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.
— Ellen Hopkins
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From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.
— Anne Sexton
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Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is…
— Susanna Kaysen
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Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or…
— David Deida
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If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you…
— Fred Rogers
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There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive…
— Kate Chopin
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She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.
— Patricia Briggs
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We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
— William Faulkner
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