Depression Quotes

2071 Depression quotes by 1126 unique authors

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Perspective is the cure for depression. — Unknown Author
No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one… — Kay Redfield Jamison
In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way… — Kay Redfield Jamison
You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular… — Paulo Coelho
Manic-depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live. It… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life… — Sebastian Faulks
I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as… — Temple Grandin
I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that… — Sylvia Plath
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We… — Chuck Palahniuk
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. — Marilyn Monroe
A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds… — Robert Bly
Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer. — Barbara Kingsolver
Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others… — Paulo Coelho
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my… — Stephen Fry
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent — Elizabeth Wurtzel
It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking — Elizabeth Wurtzel
It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like. — Nick Hornby
[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and… — William Styron
You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on… — D. H. Lawrence
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. — Laurell K. Hamilton
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness… — Barbara Kingsolver
It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. — Chuck Palahniuk

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