Depression Quotes - Page 3

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

When life beats you down, NEVER give up.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

Never judge someone. Especially if you don't know them, because you don't know what they're going through. And for all you know, your words could be the last thing they hear before they decide they have had enough.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.