Being Quote by Susan Polis Schutz

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

— Andrew Solomon

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things - but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things…

— Ginger Zee

I was depressed. I knew I was lost, but I had no idea how to find myself again. It was as though I was…

— Yasmina Khadra

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

— Dean Ornish

Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in…

— Margo Jefferson

I was battling depression, went through a really hard time in my marriage, and I used to cry myself to sleep. I went through…

— Maureen McCormick

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

— Gloria Estefan

The main thing that triggered my depression was my isolation that was imposed on me by becoming the wife of the prime minister, and…

— Margaret Trudeau

The little depression I experienced during my manic-depression was not like depression as anyone else had ever described it. It was very violent and…

— Andy Behrman

All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get…

— Hanif Kureishi

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.

— Andrew Solomon