Top depression Quotes Collection
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May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.Collection: Depression
I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster.Collection: Depression
I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me about new Zoloft or Prozac and now I just take three pills a day and I blend right into this horrible inbred corporate landscape.Collection: Depression
There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.Collection: Depression
Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.Collection: Depression
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.Collection: Depression
The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.Collection: Depression
A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.Collection: Depression
Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.Collection: Depression
I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memoriesCollection: Depression
For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.Collection: Depression
You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.Collection: Depression
So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.Collection: Depression
Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.Collection: Depression
The absolute worst part of being depressed is the food. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships. I don't think your relationship with your parents is that important. Some people never know their parents. I don't think your relationship with your friends are important. But your relationship with air-that's key. You can't break up with air. You're kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can't be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.Collection: Depression
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.Collection: Depression
The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.Collection: Depression
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.Collection: Depression
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.Collection: Depression
There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.Collection: Depression
When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.Collection: Depression
I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.Collection: Depression
There are days-depression is a part of it-when if all you do is get dressed, take a shower and put on your makeup, then it is a good day. Your goals have to be much lower. But if you take one tiny little step, then you can take another and another.Collection: Depression
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?Collection: Depression
Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.Collection: Depression
I'll be the in to your sane.Collection: Depression
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.Collection: Depression
Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.Collection: Depression
If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinkingCollection: Depression
It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-betweenCollection: Depression
Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars.Collection: Depression
It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.Collection: Depression
Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.Collection: Depression
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.Collection: Depression
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.Collection: Depression
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.Collection: Depression
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.Collection: Depression
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.Collection: Depression
I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.Collection: Depression
The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot down my throat and catapulted me into a world called sane.Collection: Depression
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.Collection: Depression
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.Collection: Depression
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.Collection: Depression
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.Collection: Depression
Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the growing heaviness (not of body in this case but of the spirit and the manuscript) toward the end, the initial delight at the sight of the product, fully formed and seemingly perfect, and then the usual postpartum depression. What will people whose opinion I care about, and those whose views I don't value but have weight in the world of reader, think of it?Collection: Depression
I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.Collection: Depression
I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.Collection: Depression
Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.Collection: Depression
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.Collection: Depression
When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the painCollection: Depression