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 smart careers
Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence. Camille Paglia
depression profound people
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people. C. L. R. James
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 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 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 kind mental-illness
Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love. Charles Manson
depression thinking happens
I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens. Charles M. Schulz
depression earthquakes want
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression. Ben Bernanke
depression men race
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth. Abraham Lincoln
depression men cheerful
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.
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 mind
I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds. Bob Dylan
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.
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 pills mental-health
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent Elizabeth Wurtzel
depression real thinking
Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.
depression character offering
I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.
depression literature way
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.