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Quotes About Depression

I haven't really spoken openly about my experiences with depression, especially, not ever having the chance to be in any way clinically diagnosed but I think that I certainly have a naturally depressive personality.
~ Eugene Lee Yang
At Somerset I played with Marcus Trescothick who has spoken very openly about his battle with depression and anxiety. I had a few conversations with him about his problems but I also read his book which provided me with a great insight into what he went though.
~ Jos Buttler
In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.
~ Ariel Gore
In a nutshell: Medical research has shown that Hypericum is an effective treatment for depression-as successful as prescription anti-depressions in a majority of patients.
~ Harold H. Bloomfield
Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.
~ Judith Peacock
Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.
~ Merle Haggard
The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and I'd rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am.
~ Neal Stephenson
The entire country of Finland (to hear Otto tell it) has been plunged into an endless night of existential despair and suicidal depression. The usual antidotes have been exhausted: self-flagellation with steeped birch twigs, mordant humor, week-long drinking bouts. The only thing to save Finland now is coffee.
~ Neal Stephenson
I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
~ Ned Vizzini
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
~ Ned Vizzini
Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
~ Ned Vizzini
I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.
~ Ned Vizzini
If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
~ Ned Vizzini
Do you have difficulty sleeping?" "Sometimes not. When I do it's bad, though. I lie there thinking about how everything I've done is a failure, death and failure, and there's no hope for me except being homeless, because I'm never going to be able to hold a job because everyone else is so much smarter.
~ Ned Vizzini
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
~ Ned Vizzini
If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.
~ Ned Vizzini
Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world.
~ Ned Vizzini
I'll get up and bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw myself off it.
~ Ned Vizzini
If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression—maybe that's what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch.
~ Ned Vizzini
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." "Life is a nightmare.
~ Ned Vizzini
O seu problema é que você tem uma visão de mundo totalmente moldada pela depressão. ? Ned Vizzini, Uma história meio que engraçada
~ Ned Vizzini
O seu problema é que você tem uma visão de mundo totalmente moldada pela depressão.
~ Ned Vizzini
Also, after the Crash of '29, this building chalked up six jumpers
~ Nelson DeMille