Depression Quotes

Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.

It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.

Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.

The key to happiness. Hm.... There are just so many factors. I think it's just a way of being. It's about.... every little thing in moderation. Whether it be stress, anger, joy, depression.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

I'm constantly having doubts and moments of depression and then excitement and then back into the slough of despond.

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

Winston County was a pocket of Republicans. Even in the depression days, when Democrats dominated Alabama, Winston County remained a Republican county and all the elected officials were Republican.

Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief and they really need to be treated for depression.

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

Congratulations to President Obama on being reelected president of the United States. Turns out it is not all bad news for the Republicans. It seems that depression is covered by Obamacare.

I don't worry about new home sales

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.

Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.

So be careful when you bend over.

Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy.

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I felt as if nature was in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.

If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it may be the means—it may put me on my guard—at least, it may be something to live for.

His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.

And so I tell you, restless one, that no matter what happens, when things get dark, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.

Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.

In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony...

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

Spring, love, happiness! Are you not weary of that stupid, meaningless, constantly repeated fraud? Always the same and always a fraud! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness!

If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.

La tristesse durera toujours.]

Hell was what you made it

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

The only time she has anything resembling a life is when she sleeps because when she sleeps she can dream.

Don't let a three-o'clock-at-night feeling fog your soul.

After a while, it all started to fade. No more pain, no more unwanted thoughts and no sound. Just darkness. I welcomed it. I was done.

The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because you worry about your purse.

Depression is a sign of strength – because it means no matter how weak your mind might be to you, your heart is still strong enough to feel.

What's the difference between depression and South America?If you really had to, you could conquer South America.

For I may fall and I may fail but I will stand again each time and you will find no satisfaction.

The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink.