Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia Plath

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.

Sylvia Plath

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

Sylvia Plath

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.

Sylvia Plath

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

Sylvia Plath

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.

Sylvia Plath

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.

Sylvia Plath

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

Sylvia Plath

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.

Rollo May

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Rollo May

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Tom Bosley

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.

Steve Buyer

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.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories

Spencer Tracy

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

Spike Milligan

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.

Stuart Chase

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 Appleby

I can certainly see how people are overcome by depression.

Susan Sontag

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Susan Sontag

Sanity is a cozy lie.

James O'Shaughnessy

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through.

We want to fly over the top of this depression before it deepens and sucks us in.

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.

The scans showed there is no significant depression and the pleasing news is Benji does not have to undergo surgery.

Rube Goldberg

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

Truman Capote

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Patty Duke

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Pope John Paul II

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Pink

In my experience the best way to beat depression is to get involved in something inspiring.

Peter McWilliams

That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden

Peter McWilliams

There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.

Peter McWilliams

Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.

Peter McWilliams

..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.

Peter McWilliams

The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.