Depression Quotes

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.

Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?

It’s disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it.

It’s a strange moment when you realize that you don’t want to be alive anymore.

Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.

He who hasn't experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time--he is a child.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.

Even when the sun was shining she couldn’t see it. The whole house was closing in on her and she was suffocating.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time

...dread invades the living room, finds her on the couch, presses on her, gets inside her where it swiftly grows bigger than she is until she is inside it, looking out from a rind of shadow.

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.

In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.

Even among familiar faces, people often feel invisible and desolate, like an island in cold waters or a shadow apart from the crowd. Be the reason another never feels alone.

Maybe anosognosia, the inability to see your own disability, is the human condition and I'm the only one who doesn't suffer from it.

Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds.

She could have risen from the ashes. Instead, she smoldered in the embers.

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.

People Are like Icebergs, You only really see the tip of them.

I am not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.

Running away can also be running to.

Cos every breath is unbearably painful

I'm not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

You have the chief spark of your health's fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.

I know by now, only too well, that you can never get away from yourself because you never go away.

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will break my soul.

Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries.

She(my love) said to me, what's the matter with you?.......I replied.....'NOTHING

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.

We're in the business of melancholiaand we are married to our work.

There are moments when we all step away from the light...

For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.

The seething rage that accompanies the truly despondent, effaces the delusional that mock from the safety of their shared illusion.

My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.

He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.

Depression lives and grows in the swamp of need.

There is a valid reason why they say live everyday as if it were your last, the truth is...., there is no tomorrow - just today

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed and open about it than somebody perfect and...you know... ready to explode.

It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness.

Mental illness is not in the business of making sense of itself.

One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are.

Sylvia had begun her month in New York with princessy pomp and fanfare….Her departure on June 27 was entirely different. She left New York shaken, depleted, and utterly alone.

The one who sees thought as a thought is the witness to mind and no longer subject to suffering.

Where there is light, darkness must cease.

You haunt my days and dreams.

I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.