Quotes about depression
depression recovery anxious-thoughts
You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you. Dan Millman
depression listening misery
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
depression feeling mourning
Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause. Edward Hirsch
depression illumination demand
Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands. May Sarton
depression emotional unhappy
Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat. David Karp
depression stupid sunshine
To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it... Claude Monet
depression painting disgusted
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
depression risks
There are risks to antidepressant treatment, but the risks of untreated depression are worse.
depression grief mad
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget! William Shakespeare
depression irrational selling state
We are in a state of semi-panic in the markets. A lot of irrational depression and a lot of irrational selling is going on.
depression educated fraternity friends-or-friendship key kids liked lives message popular took warning
My two friends in the fraternity who took their lives were probably two of the most popular kids there -- the most liked and the most sociable. So the key message is that if you don't want it to be you or your friend, get educated on the warning signs, and know that depression is treatable, because everyone is vulnerable.
depression pain opposites
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings. Alice Miller
depression given clinical-depression
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it. Albert Ellis
depression men hands
A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry. D. H. Lawrence
depression two long
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.
depression world want
... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.
depression memories drink
I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories Conor Oberst
depression moon black
They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.
depression thinking feelings
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed. Douglas Adams
depression giving mad
The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.
depression people-with-depression
Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking. Douglas Coupland
depression crazy pills
I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha. Dawn French
depression lonely compassion
The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Dalai Lama
depression men needs
You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else... Anthony Quinn
depression use mental-illness
Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment. Amy Tan
depression grief panic
Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up. Ann-Marie MacDonald
depression courage giving
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. Anatole France
depression emotional views
In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness. Andrew Weil
depression spiritual war
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. Chuck Palahniuk
depression spiritual war
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
depression thinking light
Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. Anne Sexton
depression queens lying
It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.
depression loneliness fading
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors. Andrew Solomon