More Depression Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Lithium, don’t want to lock me up inside. Lithium, don’t want to forget how it feels without… Lithium, I want to stay in love with my sorrow. Oh, but God, I want to let it go.”
– Lithium by Evanescence

“Then, as time rolls on, my head really speeds up; ideas are moving so fast they’re stumbling over each other and I begin to get this sense of power–power over other people. I begin to feel that what I think and do is of significance to those around me, even to the universe at large. I think of myself as having special insight, as understanding things that others do not, and with a special capacity to lead. I recognize now that these are warning signs.”
– Stephen Szabo

“It is difficult to put into words what I suffered–the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me–to suffer.”
– Hector Berlioz

“Clear your energy, honor your rhythm, live your vision ”

– George Denslow

“A big part of getting better is through acceptance and acceptance alone.” -Anonymous
– Anonymous

“Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You’re frightened, and you’re frightening, and you’re “not at all like yourself but will be soon,” but you know you won’t.”
– Kay Redfield Jamison

“Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.”
– Alyssa Reyans

“As I say I don’t want to kill myself, I just wouldn’t mind dying.” – Stephen Fry
– Stephen Fry

“You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.”
– Julian Seifter

“That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist‘s Reward. ”
– Ernest Hemingway

“When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression. ”
– Jesse Jackson

“Mental health data from the 1950′s on middle-aged women showed them to be a particularly distressed group, vulnerable to depression and feelings of uselessness. This isn’t surprising. If society tells you that your main role is to be attractive to men and you are getting crow’s feet, and to be a mother to children and yours are leaving home, no wonder you are distressed.”
– Grace Baruch

“In movies about women, all important historical and natural events are translated into the terms of a woman’s daily life. World War I is not about the Allies versus the Kaiser. It’s about how unmarried women become pregnant when they have sex. The Depression is not about an economic collapse. It’s about runs in stockings, no money for carfare, and being forced out into the streets. Natural disasters like earthquakes and cholera epidemics are defined by miscarriages and dying children. Everything is couched in terms of what are presumed to be the major events of a woman’s life: men, marriage, motherhood, and all the usual “feminine” things. At the same time that big events are made small, personal, small events are made huge…. Thus, the woman’s film is a genre that generously empowers a sex that society has relegated to secondary status.”
– Jeanine Basinger

“Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.”
– Jean Baudrillard

“Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist–a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist–only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.”
– E.M.Cioran

“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.”
– Leonard Cohen

“I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth. ”
– Mason Cooley

“Combining paid employment with marriage and motherhood creates safeguards for emotional well-being. Nothing is certain in life, but generally the chances of happiness are greater if one has multiple areas of interest and involvement. To juggle is to diminish the risk of depression, anxiety, and unhappiness.”
– Faya J. Crosby

“We’re in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong! ”
– Al Dubin

“We must learn to differentiate between fears and anxieties. Fears are states of apprehension which focus on isolated and recognizable dangers so that they may be judiciously appraised and realistically countered. Anxieties are diffuse states of tension (caused by a loss of mutual regulation and a consequent upset in libidinal and aggressive controls) which magnify and even cause the illusion of an outer danger, without pointing to appropriate avenues of defense or mastery. These two forms of apprehension obviously often occur together, and we can insist on a strict separation only for the sake of the present argument. If, in an economic depression, a man is afraid that he may lose his money, his fear may be justified. But if the idea of having to live on an income only ten times, instead of twenty-five times as large as that of his average fellow-citizen causes him to lose his nerve and to commit suicide, then we must consult our clinical formulas.”
– Erik H. Erikson

“It took nine years, and a great depression, and two wars ending in defeat, and one surrender without war, to break my faith in the benign power of the press. Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.”
– Martha Gellhom

“I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn’t, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.”
– Linda Grant

“Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the growing heaviness (not of body in this case but of the spirit and the manuscript) toward the end, the initial delight at the sight of the product, fully formed and seemingly perfect, and then the usual postpartum depression. What will people whose opinion I care about, and those whose views I don’t value but have weight in the world of reader, think of it?”
– Doris Grumbach

“Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it’s damn hard to smile.”
– Judith Guest

“In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.”
– Herbert Hoover

“Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.”
– Herbert Hoover

“Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.”
– Johan Huizinga

“Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said “On the line!” The Reconstruction said “Go!” I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.”
– Zora Neale Hurston

“Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn’t move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.”
– Florynce R. Kennedy

“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant…. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known–no wonder, then, that I return the love.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5

Follow this site