Depression Quotes

2071 Depression quotes by 1126 unique authors

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. — Nathaniel Branden
Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth. — Philip Larkin
The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it. — Neale Donald Walsch
You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you. — Dan Millman
In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the… — William Styron
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is… — Andrew Solomon
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. — Andrew Solomon
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful… — Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might… — Parker J. Palmer
Keep painting your demons. — Jack Beal
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. — Boethius
Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life. — Art Buchwald
May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such… — Max Ehrmann
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop,… — Zaha Hadid
What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand. — Winslow Homer
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at… — Stanley Kubrick
Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars. — Louis Mann
Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up. — Ann-Marie MacDonald
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture. — Claude Monet
To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to… — Claude Monet
When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds… — Michel de Montaigne
Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to… — May Sarton

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