Depression Quotations | Page 2

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

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.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.

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

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

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

It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suffered.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

We're all well-acquainted with depression, we all know what the low moods are, but the mania was not something I knew much about. I didn't know that it would make someone dress extravagantly or start to pun, and to stay up and drink.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Cognitive therapy is a fast-acting technology of mood modification that you can learn to apply on your own. It can help you eliminate the symptoms and experience personal growth so you can minimize future upsets and cope with depression more effectively in the future.

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

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.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

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

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

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.

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.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

The perceptions of passing time that we observe from our external clocks cause our internal clock to run faster. Hurry sickness is expressed as heart disease, high blood pressure, or depression of our immune function, leading to increased susceptibility to infection and cancer.

The point is well-taken about screening for depression in the elderly. But this falls back to the fact that the relationship with a physician is really a partnership.

Unrelieved stress affects almost every function of the body, causing insomnia, high blood pressure, constipation, depression and an assortment of anxiety-driven aches and pains.

When I was an adolescent, Tahiti was a paradise. I made up my mind to settle there someday. I was going to be a seaman like Melville, but the Great Depression put me to work as a cartoonist to support the family.

Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence.

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

We're still not sure whether CMI is due to a single disease or pathological process. But this study has identified an intriguing association between CMI risk and diagnosis of depression and anxiety disorders prior to military service.

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!

Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.

Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love.

I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.

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.

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.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic 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.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by.

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate it. 'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of 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-between

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.

Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a protest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

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.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

There is a lot of depression and anxiety among children. This is a generation that is growing up without the emotional support, love and care of the family.

We used to think the rate of postpartum depression was 9 percent. We now know it is much higher than that.

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

I'd been depressed before, of course. But I'm talking about really depressed. Not just feeling a bit down or sad, a depression that has something to do with biorhythms. I'm talking about the kind of depressed that floats in upon you like a fog. You can feel it coming and you can see where it is going to take you but you are powerless, utterly powerless to stop it. I know now.

Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.

She had a lot of depression in her life, but she didn't want to share it with anyone.

Maybe there's a faster or better way to treat depression if you approach the problem from two different directions.

Post-natal depression is a public health concern for mothers, fathers and babies,

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.

One of the problems with postpartum depression is that women usually aren't diagnosed until the disease is already established. If a woman's health care provider knew early on that a patient was slipping down this slope, he or she could intervene. It may not take much to screen for it, either - the questions in the fatigue test that we used took about two to three minutes to answer.

I was so mad that we lost the game. I kind of went into a depression and didn't shave and we ended up winning the next game. And I am kind of superstitious - just a little bit to people who know me - but we won that game and I said I am just going to keep it going until we lose and we kept it going. I don't really like the beard you know. But we were winning so I had to keep it going.

If they are (knocked) out, the whole country would be in depression and the whole atmosphere, the enthusiasm of the fans would be gone.