Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charley Pride

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.

C. S. Lewis

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

C. S. Lewis

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Carroll O'Connor

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

Carroll Quigley

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

Alan Lightman

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

Alan Cumming

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.

Blaise Pascal

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

Ben Moody

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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.

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

Ben Bernanke

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

Dean Koontz

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

Bob Dylan

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Deborah Norville

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.

Dennis Lehane

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

Art Buchwald

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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