Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keisha Buchanan

With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.

Kate Chopin

There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.

Julian Barnes

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

Kirstie Alley

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

J. K. Rowling

I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

J. K. Rowling

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

J. K. Rowling

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

Ian Mcewan

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

Hugh Laurie

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

Homer

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

He's not some cold-hearted killer who went to the hospital out of a show. He was extremely upset and distraught to the point of severe depression that evening.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

Irving Fisher

For the immediate future, at least, the outlook (stocks) is bright.

Irving Fisher

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

Irving Fisher

The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.

Irving Fisher

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months.

Neale Donald Walsch

The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it.

Marcel Proust

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

Emilie Autumn

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

Emile M. Cioran

Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

Emily Dickinson

... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll.

Emily Dickinson

I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing...

The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.

Elayne Boosler

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Hermann Hesse

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

Helen Reddy

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

Khalil Gibran

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

Oliver Sacks

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

Octave Mirbeau

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Michael Caine

You're never too old to be crazy.

Mason Cooley

The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.