Quotes about depression
depression men worry
No man is free who cannot control himself. Pythagoras
depression hurt cheer
If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity. Joyce Meyer
depression men insane
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society? Joseph Heller
depression thinking people
I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you? Julian Fellowes
depression exercise years
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. Judy Collins
depression enemy way
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.
depression believe sadness
I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.
depression thinking joy
Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.
depression uplifting attitude
A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.
depression anger thinking
So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone. Ellen Hopkins
depression loneliness guy
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. Elizabeth Gilbert
depression loneliness guy
They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.
depression men iron
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape. John Bunyan
depression thinking mind
Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times. Joan Baez
depression uplifting light
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light. Madeleine L'Engle
depression things-in-life clouds
I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time. Lucy Maud Montgomery
depression tired sick
Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. These poor souls were born sick and tired. Louis Sullivan
depression heart men
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears. John Gay
depression mad mental-illness
And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did. John Fowles
depression depressing thinking
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it. Jonathan Davis
depression psycho mental-illness
Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring. Julie Delpy
depression depressing trying
If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time. Lynda Barry
depression kid lebanese
The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.
depression suicide children
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace. Hermann Hesse
depression believe heart
In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
depression waste wasting-time
Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. Helen Reddy
depression mad insanity
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know. John Dryden
depression great-depression crash
We will not have any more crashes in our time. John Maynard Keynes
depression cheer winter
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now! Alan Bennett
depression disappointment relaxation
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. Al Alvarez
depression numbness weary
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope. Dennis Lehane
depression views people
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. Bob Geldof
depression risks
There are risks to antidepressant treatment, but the risks of untreated depression are worse.