Quotes about depression
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.
depression mental-illness illness
... I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ...
depression mother heart
... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.
depression fall eye
Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.
depression stars writing
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.
depression night sirens
Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens.
depression crazy insane
When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.
depression home cutting
You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative life. You are becoming a neuter machine. You cannot love, even if you knew how to begin to love. Every thought is a devil, a hell-if you could do a lot of things over again, ah, how differently you would do them! You want to go home, back to the womb. You watch the world bang door after door in your face, numbly, bitterly. You have forgotten the secret you knew, once, ah, once, of being joyous, of laughing, of opening doors.
depression yesterday vision
A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.
depression running two
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
depression air paris
because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.
depression silence feminism
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
depression taken eye
I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.
depression depressing sadness
Depression is the inability to construct a future. Rollo May
depression ideas creating
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
depression people needs
I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives. Tom Bosley
depression country struggle
From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny. Steve Buyer
depression memories eye
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
depression tired pretending
I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else. Spencer Tracy
depression depressing pain
I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet. Spike Milligan
depression years america
The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have three more years to go before the tailspin. Stuart Chase
depression people overcoming
I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression. Stuart Appleby
depression melancholy fit
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. Susan Sontag
depression women lying
Sanity is a cozy lie.
depression mean mad
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. Stephen Fry
depression giving tears
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.
depression mind dying
As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.
depression may
I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.
depression being-depressed lethargy
It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
depression wall black
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.
depression strong emotional
Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. "Losing one's head," language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience. Robert Musil
depression reflection men
When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all. Robert M. Pirsig