Quotes about depression
depression jesus heart
No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death." There was no sin in Him, and consequently none in His deep depression. Charles Spurgeon
depression night people
I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.
depression joy excess
Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.
depression jesus pain
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul, though upon the surface, a rough tempest may be raging, and there may be little apparent calm.
depression jesus heart
I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions.
depression doors iron
The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.
depression cheer winter
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now! Alan Bennett
depression disappointment relaxation
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement. Al Alvarez
depression crazy insane-world
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. Akira Kurosawa
depression trying bad-mood
Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood. David D. Burns
depression gauges looks
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. Cesare Pavese
depression fact falls physician point relationship screening
The point is well-taken about screening for depression in the elderly. But this falls back to the fact that the relationship with a physician is really a partnership.
depression ideas delirium-tremens
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. Antonin Artaud
depression good-day makeup
There are days-depression is a part of it-when if all you do is get dressed, take a shower and put on your makeup, then it is a good day. Your goals have to be much lower. But if you take one tiny little step, then you can take another and another. Deborah Norville
depression numbness weary
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. Dennis Lehane
depression earthquakes want
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression. Ben Bernanke
depression mental-illness psychotic
Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. Dean Koontz
depression roots bird
It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds. Black Elk
depression speak eating
For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters. Bette Midler
depression views people
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. Bob Geldof
depression thinking opposites
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 you ride if you possibly can.
depression taken past
I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression. Charley Pride
depression pain heart
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken. C. S. Lewis
depression god christian
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
depression made inevitable
It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered. Carroll O'Connor
depression war use
Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. Carroll Quigley
depression sadness acid
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. Alan Lightman
depression fog talking
I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now. Alan Cumming
depression higher postpartum rate
We used to think the rate of postpartum depression was 9 percent. We now know it is much higher than that.
depression economists exciting experience great iowa period profitable state talented younger
My professional apprenticeship at Iowa State College from 1930 to 1943 could not have been better; the Great Depression made it so, and the talented younger economists at Ames during that period made it an exciting and profitable intellectual experience. Theodore Schultz
depression men mad
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. Blaise Pascal
depression achievement usual
Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.
depression wise strong
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.