Depression Quotes

Sometimes, all you can dois lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep beforeyou fall apart.

I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.

It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.

I cry and wonderhow I'm going to fall asleepbecause sleeping means wakingand going through all this again

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.

It’s been raining outside and I feel like a sad poet, hating my imagination pissing on the roof.

You have a history of starving yourself, " he says gently.I lift my head. I meet his gaze. "I have a history that I don't like to talk about.

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.

I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways.

Just a second of her laughter can get me through the darkest day.

Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.

The sun stopped shining for me is all.

If you take action while you are mad, you will always make the wrong decision.

...we can love someone without understanding that person.

Punpun was just fine again today.

Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed.

If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing

If you know that I am genius Then know that you made me genius Everyone don't accept me as genius Because they aren't genius to belief me as genius

Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.

People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.

my stomach turned and burned with the acid of failure

a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

As long as everyone thinks you’re a cutter or tried to commit suicide you’ll always be on the outs.

I'm sorry to say it, but it was hard on me to see life continue all around.

for a moment, she let herself be defeated, wished herself not exactly annihilation but into a temporary absense, into being nowhere and no one just for a little while.

Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up.

I’m busy saving everybody else when I can’t even save myself

Serotonin, the "feel-good" brain chemical that is boosted by Prozac, depends on magnesium for its production and function.

Eventually sinking into despair, [Heinrich von Kleist] shot himself in 1811 as part of a suicide pact made with a woman suffering from incurable cancer.

manic depression is the result of the sum of repetitiveness in life and expecting a different result.

Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.

Discouragement is the illegitimate child of false expectations! Loyd Ogilive

And then depression set in....

Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?

People think being depressed is just being tired and lazy. It isn't. It's more like being dead when you're still breathing.

How could death not be appealing, when the only thing that gave him comfort in life was being unconscious?

the capture the rapture the rupture of a soula solo symphony

weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be

No, no, no, no. Don't get carried away, man. One thaw is not the summer.

Allow your mind to be still and rest in His presence.

Much of his time at Oxford passed by his own account under a dark cloud of listlessness and depression. He was dismayed by the undergraduates' relentless snobbery and unremitting emphasis on money.

I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us.

When people start getting depressed there’s just no end to it—things just seem to get worse and worse.

We met in a school elevator, and he could tell from the way I spoke that we had some sadness in common.

Sadness wasn't a disease you could catch, as far as I know, but from what I seen, people treated it like it was.

Because the silence is exhausting and isolating in a way it needn't be.

I've come to realize that hunger feels more like home than any tangible structure ever has, or probably ever will. I know now that creating absence is my way of coping with absence.