Quotes about depression
depression self mental-illness
I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless. John Steinbeck
depression want emotion
I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression. Nicolas Cage
depression crazy insane-person
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. Nora Ephron
depression together said
Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can. Mignon McLaughlin
depression despair harder
She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair. Patricia Briggs
depression class construction
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. Plato
depression wordsworth daffodil
Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth. Philip Larkin
depression self-esteem accomplish-nothing
Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. Martin Seligman
depression achievement news
Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated. Martin Seligman
depression enemy want
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy. Matt Lucas
depression crazy mental-illness
You're never too old to be crazy. Michael Caine
depression fall exhausted
The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking. Mason Cooley
depression thinking form
I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth. Mason Cooley
depression courage bipolar
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed. Mason Cooley
depression mean people
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. Theodore Kaczynski
depression suicidal thinking
I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died? Melinda Gates
depression fell felt ideas learned life music pushed sat suffered time
I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.
depression bipolar problem
I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2? Ned Beatty
depression about-yourself grows
The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it. Neale Donald Walsch
depression art thinking
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. Marcel Proust
depression honestly openly
And I can openly and honestly say to you I have never had a day of depression in my life, OK? Mark Latham
depression loneliness doe
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does. Henry Rollins
depression running heart
It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer. Hector Berlioz
depression valentines-day opportunity
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. Henry David Thoreau
depression world seems
The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop. Eric Hoffer
depression heart years
If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come. Franklin D. Roosevelt
depression agents may
All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt
depression rain shopping
The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain. Johnny Vegas
depression kid lebanese
The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.
depression tired way
I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired. Sylvia Plath
depression death speak
I’ll never speak to God again. Sylvia Plath
depression silly tired
It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it. Sylvia Plath
depression mental-illness illness
... I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ... Sylvia Plath