Depression Quotes

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.

I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.