Depression Quotes

2071 Depression quotes by 1126 unique authors

But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to… — Niall Ferguson
Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this?… — Susanna Kaysen
I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the… — Andrew Weil
I should perhaps warn you that I am about to faint from anxiety and general depression, though. The film I saw last night was especially… — John Kennedy Toole
When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul,… — Dorothy Rowe
Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really). — John Green
I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it… — Ned Vizzini
Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with… — Paulo Coelho
When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch… — Stephen King
What would I do without you? I'd die of stress and depression before nature killed me. — James Dashner
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no… — Mother Teresa
It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes… — Melina Marchetta
Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work… — Mitch Albom
I can't afford it' shut down your brain. it didn't have to think anymore. besides, it also brings up sadness. a helplessness that leads to… — Robert Kiyosaki
The world has never been as divided as it is now, what with religious wars, genocides, a lack of respect for the planet, economic crisis,… — Paulo Coelho
It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of… — Elwyn Brooks White
I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average… — Tara Brach
Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you… — Jonathan Tropper
The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression. — BrenÃ© Brown
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates… — Sylvia Plath
It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would… — J.A. Redmerski

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