Depression Quotes - Page 5

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.

When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

As powerful as the power of positive thoughts are, depression biologically interferes with the brain's ability to maintain a positive thought for any period of time. Like the farmer who casts his seed upon the rocks, all the positive thoughts in the world presented to the depressed mind will not bear fruit.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

Habits of pessimism lead to depression, wither achievement, and undermine physical health. The good news is that pessimism can be unlearned, and that with its removal depression, underachievement, and poor health can be alleviated.

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.