Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Miller

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

A. A. Milne

Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.

Dalai Lama

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

Claude Monet

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

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

Dan Millman

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

Dawn French

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.

David Karp

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.

Anthony Quinn

You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else...

Amy Tan

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.

It can lead to depression and even suicide.

If it was to develop into a depression tonight or tomorrow, it could develop into a tropical storm.

There are risks to antidepressant treatment, but the risks of untreated depression are worse.

Alain de Botton

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

You can tell a difference in them from the very first month. Once they have been given permission to be a woman, the depression lifts.

May Sarton

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.

Carrie Fisher

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Anthony Storr

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished.

It is a recession when your neighbor has lost his job. It is a depression when you have lost yours

Pete Fountain

I think maybe it was just depression about all the stuff that happened. All the things we lost. All the disruption. And then you look around and see all the stuff still messed up. It just sort of grinds you down.

Black Elk

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

Bette Midler

For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

Bob Geldof

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

Bob Geldof

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

Calista Flockhart

Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.

Calvin Coolidge

In other periods of depression, it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground to hope-nothing of man.

Calvin Coolidge

No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquillity and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity.

William Shakespeare

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!

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.

Research shows that a woman who has a history of depression is twice as likely to subsequently experience infertility as a woman with no history of depression.

Joe Hill

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

Geoffrey Boycott

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.

Frank Bruno

It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole in my head and let the steam come out. The steam was getting so high and the pressure was just getting a little bit much for me.