Depression Quotes

Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. And I was comfortable with it.

I am sure I have summer depression

Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God.

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies? 'Sister Sonja often asked me, as though to understand the depth and breadth of human suffering would be enough to pull me outside of my own.

People will come in your life and bring instant joy like a rainbow or wreak havoc like a hurricane. And once their duty is done the presence will away leaving you to live alone.

I was never ready and could you see it in the way time collapsed in my syntax? Because melancholia is the inability to sequentialize.

I'm going to lie down. Please wake me up in a couple of don't.

It wasn't that I stopped caring about life, but that I've stopped being able to care.

A message for those of you who contemplate permanent solutions to temporary problems. You never know what could be coming in the future. There is so much music you've yet to hear.

Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life.

...this was as if an actual steamroller driven by a crazy grinning idiot had trundled through the door and flattened my entire life into a sad pancake of nothingness.

Time they say is a great healer, but in this case, I am not sure that is true.

It hurts when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.Deep inside Where nothing’s fine I’ve lost my mind

People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person.

I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather.

To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that "sad" people must be coddled like helpless toddlers.

I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.

Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.

I hate sadness. Anything is better than sadness. Even feeling nothing.

The first thing the therapist asked me was, 'Are you here because you're depressed?' I said, 'Not at all--I'm here because I'm Southern.'" Anne Herndon

Some people, perhaps those with more dignity and less rage gnawing at the roots of their being, are nicer as failures, For me, it was like descending a deep pit that had no bottom

That is the worst thing about despair: it is not constant, any more than love is.

I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had happen.

Depressed states can make us feel like we're constantly fighting against ourselves but we must engage in that fight for ourselves.

Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

That kind of monotony that running generates - the one soundtracked by heavy breathing and the steady rhythm of feet on pavements - became a kind of metaphor for depression.

I'm a Polaroid developing in reverse

Asking 'why' only makes us feel hopeless. Asking 'how' points the way forward, and shows us what we must do

One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.

The way out is never through yourself.

Life doesn’t need to be difficult to become impossible.

but the effort of setting the table, heating up the food and then washing the dishes seemed to him tonight a superhuman one.

Render unto meditation the things that are meditation’s, and unto medication the things that are medication’s.

You can't quell depression by making love. But we tried. But we tried, oh, we did.

Despite how long I'd slept, I was so tired--tired in my bones, in my crumpled heart."- Sarah J Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

I sleep and sleep and sleep, yet I still have an unquenchable thirst for it.

It's what the loss uncovers in you that brings on despair, not the loss itself.

I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses.

There was no life Dennis burned to live except, it seemed, a life that wasn't depressed.

I was going all well and then suddenly struck by this devil just out of the blue and i got paralyzed...

And there he was waiting for the song to end, but it started again, like it's on repeat, maybe he is never meant to be happy, maybe this is the only feeling life has for him.

...you have to ask yourself two questions: Who am I? And how may I become myself?

You burn bright and you burn hard, like a fire in a dumpster, and nobody is so worriedabout you burning as they are worried about the fire spreading.

You are only as deepas the ashtrays you use. You only stick around because you like the abuse.

I’m a lot like you, and you’re a lot like me.It’s sad to say, and it’s sad to see.

It isn’t easy, ” is easy to say and sometimes I think that the only thing we can dois say really easy things to each other.

Life must be terrible for working people, considering they spend every Friday night celebrating a two day break from it.

I was a vacant room. Inside, the music produces only a dry, hollow echo.

I want to remember what we were like before we became ourselves.

As a sufferer of depression for many years, I know the importance of trying to find positive experiences in each day, no matter how small.