Quotes About Depression

Be courageous! ... I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has come out stronger and more prosperous. Be as brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward.

Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind... ...but he won't.

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

the love thrust upon the Swede seemed actually to deprive him of feeling.

His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all the sadness that his head couldn't hold.

At first I was exhilarated by my freedom from the responsibility of the kingship. This lasted about seven minutes. I was also depressed by my freedom from marriage, for I had become accustomed to the attentions of a woman. This lasted about nine minutes. Then I was bored.

Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy

All monsters have their fits of depression.

But on my worst days, which are rare and of which this is one, I can get down so low that the bottom seems to be where I belong. I don't even want to look for a way up. I suppose surrender to sadness is a sin, though my current sadness is not a black depression but is instead a sorrow like a long moody twilight.

I am not only in a cold dark place; I AM a cold dark place.

Sorrow might have grown into depression if he had been a less positive person, but his lifelong experience was that every spell of darkness lifted soon enough, so that light came again into the soul and mind and heart, which were not made for darkness.

Life has taught her that it's mentally exhausting and spiritually depressing

If your brain does not receive sufficient stimulus, it might find something else to do—it daydreams, it wanders, it thinks about itself. If this goes on too long, it can affect your mind's normal functioning. Chronic boredom correlates with depression and attention deficits.

How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?

During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.

Sometimes when you're sad, it's easier to be angry.

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Are you depressed or euphoric? The house, in its wisdom, seems to have taken advantage of your moments of euphoria to prepare itself to shelter you in your moments of depression.

A vida assemelha-se um pouco a uma enfermidade: também procede por crises e por depressões. A diferença entre as outras doenças é que a vida é sempre mortal.

Sólo lo triste, los depresivo, lo susceptible, lo delicado, lo quebradizo me conmovía y me parecía bello.

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

Hollywood flicks are fun, if your idea of a good time is a hamburger and a milk shake. America invented the movies so it would never need to grow up. We have angst, depression and middle-aged regret. They have Hollywood.