Depression Quotes

2071 Depression quotes by 1126 unique authors

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. — Martin Seligman
I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow… — Mitch Albom
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique.… — Unknown Author
In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns… — Andrew Weil
We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life. — Mary J. Blige
Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something… — Bob Geldof
Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us more loving, creative, and wise,… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure… — Joseph Heller
Feelings are constantly changing. None is dependable for long. You can love someone intensely today, and tomorrow or next month not feel a thing. Except… — Barry Long
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. — William Gibson
My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother… — Richard P. Feynman
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. — Arnold Bennett
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy. — Matt Lucas
Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression. — Robert Genn
I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me,… — Glenn Gould
There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop… — David St. John
The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel
The opposite of play is not work. It's depression. — Brian Sutton-Smith
Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by… — Nicholas Stern
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. — Robert Johnson
Depression, when it's clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it's known to respond to medication and to counseling. However truly you… — Jonathan Franzen
If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
To measur whether it is humility or depression, check whether you are advancing spiritually or going down. — Radhanath Swami
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition… — Andrew Solomon
Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy. — Jane McGonigal

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