Quotes About Depression

Her initial elation had given way to something unexpected: a heightened sadness. Even depression.

He learned the nervous cheer of a soldier's first survived combat, when the men slap each other and smile as if it's over— We can go home now! —and he learned the sinking depression of a soldiers second combat, when he realizes the fighting does not stop at one battle, there is more and more after that.

It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, (...), and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plausible desirable futures began to emerge, unimaginable previously, but not unimaginable now, and the result was something not unlike relief.

It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself.

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Because he knew how to invent machines that sometimes worked, even though everyone else laughed at them, Jody had begun to feel that he was a great deal cleverer than the Fourths and even than the other Thirds, old and married though they were. But now he suddenly saw, in a plunge into depression, that he knew nothing . After all, machines were easy to understand. But people were a mystery!

Her words depressed him. They were like spilt sugar; however much you swept it up some grains would keep grinding under your feet.

when some of the neural "lights" in question have been switched off by injury, the outcome can be connected to a form of generalized depression, or what Dr. Jim Pfaus of Concordia University calls "anhedonia"—a state of pleasurelessness, bleakness, or grayness, in perceptions of the world.

the cause of the depression is traceable directly to the worldwide habit of trying to reap without sowing.

Fear of poverty is a state of mind, nothing else! But it is sufficient to destroy one's chances of achievement in any undertaking, a truth which became painfully evident during the depression.

In energy terms, depression literally is a release of energy—or life-force, if you will—without consciousness. If energy is like money, depression is like opening your wallet and announcing, "I don't care who takes my money or how it is spent.

Indeed, sometimes it's easier to recover from a physical crisis than from a myth crisis. It can be difficult to heal from a myth crisis if you don't even realize you're in one! An unacknowledged myth crisis can be the seed of lifelong depression and even a terminal illness.

For me, food cures everything. Depression. Boredom. Anger. Chocolate cake can take care of ingrown toenails, and potato chips can eradicate acne.

Frances wanted the whole world to die.

Sitting down in the evenings became a kind of torture, a bleak realization of her talents laid out against the bright shimmering fabric of her dreams. Yet she couldn't stop, she couldn't give up so easily. To stop writing completely produced in her a bleak and relentless depression, so she stubbornly persisted, plodding through endless drafts and revisions, telling herself she was learning something each time.

she'd learned that the more people there were, the lonelier she felt.

If only they knew how his days were covered in darkness, as if someone had turned off the light switch in his mind; if only they knew how his waking up in the morning was the first disappoint of every day. He was tired, he had nothing left to give, no more ideas to try.

The sadness grew within her until she seemed to exist only as a dark nimbus of melancholy, and even Max could no longer cheer her with his talk and his

The only advise I can give to all the ladies is that don't take any wrong step or harm yourself when you are under depression. Be strong and try to handle it.

They really do a disservice because these men and women came out of the Depression, they came out of the war.

A lot of sportsmen get depression, all sorts of mental health issues. A lot of people retire and you don't hear from them, but I don't want to do that.

Mental illness and depression are the reason why I no longer have a father.

We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.

Everyone has some secret and some source of pain or sadness and I just said mine first and then everybody went after me. I get it every day in my Instagram direct messages, people thanking me for talking about depression and telling me how it helped them.