Depression Quotes And Sayings

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“Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.”
– Dorothy Rowe

“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.”
– Dorothy Rowe

“Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.”
– Dorothy Rowe

“If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling.”
– Dr. R. W. Shepherd

“What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think.”
– Dr. Patrick Gentempo

“Depression is inertia.”
– Dr. Wayne Dyer

“After all, what are birthdays? Here today and gone tomorrow.”
– Eeyore

“Nobody tells me. Nobody keeps me informed. I make it 17 days come Friday since anybody spoke to me.”
– Eeyore

“When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.”
– Elayne Boosler

“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. ”
– Eleanor Roosevelt 

“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

“I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don’t know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?… I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t. I don’t want any more vicissitudes, I don’t want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel

“In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I loved it because I thought it was all I had. 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

“Insanity is knowing that what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can’t stop it.”
– 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

“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

“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

“That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel

“It’s like a kettle. If it’s a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole in my head and let the steam come out. The steam was getting so high and the pressure was just getting a little bit much for me.”
– Frank Bruno

“A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.”
– Geoffrey Norman

“A life spent making mistakes is not only honourable, but more useful than life spent doing nothing.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Depression is rage spread thin.’
– George Santayana

“The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” 
– Gustav Jung

“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.”
– Harry S. Truman

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” 
– Helen Keller

“Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.”
– Myla Kabat-Zinn

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
– Helen Keller 

“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
– Helen Keller 

“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
– Henry David Thoreau 

“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.”
– Henry David Thoreau 

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