Quotes about depression
depression uplifting commitment
Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me. Susan Polis Schutz
depression new-york years
Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression. Stuart Symington
depression mean mad
And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm. Stephen Fry
depression giving tears
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.
depression mind dying
As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.
depression may
I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.
depression being-depressed lethargy
It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
depression wall black
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.
depression prayer humorous
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. Thomas Szasz
depression sarcastic anger
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. Steven Wright
depression nice scare
You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.
depression crush black
I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated. Stephenie Meyer
depression dream giving
I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing. Stefan Zweig
depression dark scary
I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative. Tim Burton
depression struggle blow
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime. Victor Hugo
depression light soul
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
depression crazy safe
... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there. Susanna Kaysen
depression real mean
Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don’t talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don’t want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.
depression crazy girl-interrupted
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.
depression light quiet
Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me. Suzanne Collins
depression suicide madness
Madness is a kind of mental suicide. Stephen King
depression reality glasses
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
depression moving suicidal
He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it ...
depression dark blow
And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the Thing in the Cellar. Call it the Blow Lunch Factor. Call it the Loony Tunes File. I think of it as my private dinosaur, huge, slimy, and mindless, stumbling around in the stinking swamp of my subconscious, never finding a tar pit big enough to hold it.
depression roots world
The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware. Stanley Kubrick
depression tired way
I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired. Sylvia Plath
depression death speak
I’ll never speak to God again.
depression silly tired
It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.
depression mental-illness illness
... I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ...
depression mother heart
... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.
depression fall eye
Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.
depression stars writing
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.
depression night sirens
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.