Depression Quotes

Words cannot explain the bruise that festers into a river that runs deep filled with pain n sorrows which only the visible can cure

I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.

A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to find my way back to a place that doesn't exist.

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.

Everyone else has a work party, 'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad.

I didn't answer. Just shook my head and let the tears roll. "I just want it to go away. I just want all the drama to stop. Nobody would believe me anyway, " I whispered. "Nobody would care.

As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.

...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...

It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human.

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

There’s a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don’t want to live, you’re really just empty.

I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despair wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favourite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy.

I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.

I think I've lost my faith and I can't stop writingbecause I don't know howmuch longer I can hold on.

The goal was to get sane, to get whole, to be complete enough to support someone else.

I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive.

It's always too soon to quit! Believe in the goodness of God practically speaking.

You do it how you can do it, so long as it's getting done, you're okay.

mia knew the weight that said nothing will ever be different from what it is now, that the world has lost all dimension and has turned to stone.

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.

The train blows through towndelivering reality, slapping my face and screaming, “You are alone”Rose colored memories drown, taking their last breath.

An intensely gripping narrative...expertly crafted and totally addictive...a must read!

There is nothing for you in this bleak hospital room but a cold and empty nothingness that has no answers, can give no peace, will provide no comfort to the living.

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account...

Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.

You cannot move forward if you are always thinking backwards

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?

It's always almost Autumn, down here at Rock Bottom.

I would prefer to die than to be depressed for depression can hurt you everyday and it'll last for a lifetime while on dying, you can only feel pain the moment you'll die.

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Feeling sorry for myself was an art.

Never take the first brick out of the wall unless you know it is meant to fall

I thought I was dreaming and I dreamed.

There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.

It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.

The red washingdown the bathtubcan't change the color of the seaat all.

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

Of course I began to see Nikki, which was strange because I was staring into Danny's eyes, and Danny is a six-foot-three black man who looks nothing like my ex-wife.

Somebody stop the world. I'm scared and I want to get off.

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

Poor Ramon.

I've never been the most important person to anybody - not even myself.

Perhaps the greatest neutralizer of sadness rests with two simple words : thank you.

I crave stillness, And yet I fear the momentStillness turns into boredom, And the moment boredomTurns into loneliness.

He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.

What if I just want to die?""Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life.

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can’t pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.

The only personYou shouldn't be ableTo live withoutIs you.