Depression Quote by Sally Brampton Download Open image ““I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.”” — Sally Brampton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Depression Depressive Easy Graffiti Illness Spots
“Depression is evil. Before you know it, it takes over and there's no escaping it.” — E.L. Montes Copy Share Image
“...Even to me, a sufferer, 'depression' seems like a fetid load of weaselly claptrap, a cheap and easy excuse for not participating in life.” — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
“Depression is a physical illness, like bleeding from a wound that won’t close. You cannot fix it, it doesn’t heal.” — Gaia B. Amman Copy Share Image
“Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it” — Julie Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Depression's like a big fur coat/ It's made of dead things but it keeps me warm.” — Icon for Hire Copy Share Image
“Depression is a Virus, handling it Once, Builds Your Immunity to it.” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
“Depression is real. It happens. We go through it. Hold onto yourself in those moments.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world.” — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.” — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.” — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“Imagine saying to somebody that you have a life-threatening illness, such as cancer, and being told to pull yourself together or get over it. Imagine being terribly ill and too afraid to tell anyone lest it destroys your career. Imagine being admitted to hospital because you are too ill to function and being too ashamed to tell anyone, because it… — Sally Brampton Copy Share
“I once read a theory about ‘positive thinking’ that seems to be true or, at least, made a sufficient impression on me to remember it. I have always been distrustful of positive thinking, believing it to be as fixed and unyielding as negative thinking. Yet it is the advice most often offered to depressives. That it does not work seems… — Sally Brampton Copy Share
“Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with a note of approval, "He fought so hard." And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply… — Sally Brampton Copy Share
“I would not wish depression on anybody. And yet, it taught me a lot. I have not become suddenly mawkishly grateful for my life… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“It is two years since I emerged from depression and I no longer want myself dead. I want myself alive. I am no longer… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence. — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world,… — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
“Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.” — Sally Brampton Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
Im tired, tired of putting more effort than you do. Im tired of always having to start the conversation and if I dont, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But the beast did not want to be tamed, for he was a beast and beasts care not for such things, and the girl died along with her dreams. From childhood's grave sprang a young woman, jaded… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share
“Why in depression" "If we are human, why not have the right to smile, Why in depression, young, and beautiful as earth, Why in… — Yanilsa pena Copy Share Image
“Shorter believes that psychosomatic illnesses (such as leg paralysis at the turn of the twentieth century or multiple personality disorder at the turn of the twenty-first) are examples of the unconscious mind attempting to speak in a language of emotional distress that will be understood in its time. People at a given moment in history in need of expressing their… — Ethan Watters Copy Share