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Quotes About Depression

we overheard one girl say to another: "Betsy is depressed today." It seems almost an incredible relief to know that there is someone outside oneself who is not happy all the time. We must be at low ebb when we are this far into the black: that everyone else, merely because they are "other", is invulnerable. That is a damn lie.
~ Sylvia Plath
stupid people trying to manage me sends me into acute depression.
~ Tad Williams
He hated this time of year. Every day was shorter than the last. Night began to fall in late afternoon. Winter could arrive on any given day and stay until April. They had had an ice storm on Halloween and a blizzard on Veterans Day, followed by three days of rain that had caused flash flooding in low-lying areas. The odd day of stunning, electric blue skies and a paltry few lingering fall colors couldn't make up for the stretches of bleak gray or the damp cold that knifed to the bone.
~ Tami Hoag
A depressão atormentava Ignatiev todas as noites. Pesada, desconcertante, de cabeça baixa, sentava-se na beira da cama e pegava-lhe na mão - uma enfermeira triste para um doente incurável. E passavam horas em silêncio, de mão dada.
~ Tatiana Tolstoï
My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.
~ Juliana Hatfield
The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.
~ Julianna Baggott
November came roaring in with gusty winds and more wet weather. Mandy's depression would not go away. Her garden seemed sad, too. It was virtually empty now, and the few brave flowers that remained there were flattened by rain, their yellows stalks sprawling in all directions. Most of the trees were bare, and the woods had a wet carpet of leaves.
~ Julie Andrews Edwards
It was her way of saying, "You should kill yourself.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it
~ Julie Schumacher
Reading it in the evening by flashlight during his walking tour of Corsica, he later claimed to his Berkeley friend Haakon Chevalier, was one of the great experiences of his life. It snapped him out of his depression.
~ Kai Bird
periodic bouts of depression. Some of these episodes were brought on by his family's
~ Kai Bird
I sometimes write in a cafe down the road from my house now because I feel guilty trying to work if I can hear them playing. I invariably end up sat in a corner, depressed, retreating into my own world.
~ Julia Davis
One of things I find really irritating is when people say, 'You need to exercise, it'll make you feel better.' When you are in the deepest, darkest hole, that is the last thing that you can imagine doing.
~ Frankie Bridge
It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
~ Natalie Imbruglia
I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history'... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move... do something fresh and new.'
~ Tommy Lee
I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.
~ Betty Parsons
Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.
~ Tanya Tucker
Dado que un hogar desordenado conduce a una mente desordenada, y una mente desordenada conduce al estrés, a la ansiedad y a la depresión, no es sorprendente que el simple hecho de adoptar un enfoque minimalista de la vida pueda traerle una mayor felicidad.
~ Frank Robbins
Out of everything the depression stole from me... I miss my books the most.
~ Frank Warren
Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You just want to stop existing," Kaladin said. "You don't want to actually kill yourself, not on most days. But you figure it sure would be convenient if you weren't around anymore.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I believe that human beings need humor during times of depression," M-Bot said.
~ Brandon Sanderson
He avoided stepping on the plants—though he wasn't sure why he bothered. The crops hardly seemed worth the effort. Wan, with wilted brown leaves, the plants seemed as depressed as the people who tended them.
~ Brandon Sanderson
not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.
~ Brandon Sanderson