Ancient Quote by DeWitt Bodeen

“The roiling, restless fog is like chaos before a storm, swirling streaks resembling wintry clouds. Serpents lurking there can spread its pestilence, and evil…

— Luo Guanzhong

I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest…

— Anonymous

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world…

— Lady Bird Johnson

“Depression is a type of underlying mindset that develops from within, above and beyond even our consciousness.  It is our mental and emotional weather—our…

— Ronnie Worsham

The worst thing about depression isn't the sense that you're accentuating the negative, it's that you're seeing things the way they really are, stripped…

— James Lileks

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain…

— Jean Paul

As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain,…

— William Arthur Ward

“It is a signal feature of depression that, in times of trouble, sensible ideas, memories of good times, and optimism for the future all…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the…

— Charles Spurgeon

Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they…

— Louis Sullivan

You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood.…

— Andrew Solomon

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

— Gautama Buddha