Depression Quotes - Page 17

Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.

Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-between

Work is always an antidote to depression.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul.

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

The Government's business is in sound condition.

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens.