Famous Quotes & Sayings

In the past, so often, individuals felt -- and even presently -- that depression is a personal flaw or a personal weakness. The more we can help people to understand that it is a medical condition, the more readily they'll seek help.

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.

Jack Dee

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

Glenn Gould

I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.

John Steinbeck

I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.

John Piper

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

John Piper

Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope - Jesus Christ is not defective in any way whatsoever. But the view from the struggling Christian's heart of their objective hope could be obscured by disease and pain, the pressures of life, and by Satanic fiery darts shot against them... All discouragement and depression is related to the obscuring of our hope, and we need to get those clouds out of the way and fight like crazy to see clearly how precious Christ is.

Marilyn French

in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

Sebastian Faulks

Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

Ray Brown

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

Siobhan Fahey

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

Siobhan Fahey

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

Sinead O'Connor

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

Theodore Kaczynski

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.

Melinda Gates

I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

Eric Hoffer

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

Henry Rollins

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

Hector Berlioz

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Patricia Briggs

She wondered that hope was so much harder then despair.

Plato

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Philip Larkin

Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.

Martin Seligman

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

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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.

Johnny Vegas

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.

Nicolas Cage

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.

Nora Ephron

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Mignon McLaughlin

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

Matt Lucas

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

Lee H. Hamilton

depression that we haven't done better, that we didn't learn more than we did from 9/11.

Depression has many forms. You might get up in the morning and just as soon not face the day. You feel overwhelmed with it all and are continually feeling low.