Quotes About Depression

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

I've learned what I can control is whether I am going to live a day in fear and depression and panic, or whether I am going to attack the day and make it as good a day, as wonderful a day, as I can.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

The feelings of guilt takes away self-confidence, reduces self-esteem welcomes fear, confusion, disappointment, depression etc.

Life is a series of disappointments broken only by dark spells of despression.

Statistically 1 out of 5 females and 1 out of 8 males will go through a depressive episode at some point during their lives. You're never alone.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed because theres joy in my life.

Loving you made me strong but it also made me weak. It made me happy but also depressed. It helped me up but also pulled me down. It taught me how to hold on but now it's teaching me how to let go.

Fall in love or fall in hate, get inspired or be depressed. Ace a test or flunk a class. Make babies or make art. Speak the truth the truth or lie and cheat. Dance on tables or sit in the corner. Life is divine chaos. Embrace it. And enjoy in the ride.

I'm tired of laughing when I want to cry, I'm tired of smiling when I want to die, I say I'm fine when I'm not, All I want is for the pain to stop.

I'm sick of crying, I'm fed up of trying, yah I'm smiling, but inside I'm dying.

The stage scenery, still in its place, among which I was passing, seen thus at close range and without the advantage of any of those effects of lighting and distance on which the eminent artist whose brush had painted it had calculated, was a depressing sight, and Rachel, when I came near her, was subjected to a no less destructive force.

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Aside from the privilege of actually being white, they had been denied the privilege of freely yielding to depression, of flaunting neurosis as a mark of social and psychic complexity. A privilege that was glorified in the literature of white female suffering and resistance. A privilege Good Negro Girls had been denied by our history of duty, obligation, and discipline

Don't search for answers. I felt like I was always searching. Literally -- when I felt depressed I'd wander online, pressing links, looking for something that would make me feel better. I'd surf from friends' photos to strangers' blog posts about how to apply makeup, to the flight message board, to Googling Will for the hundredth time--and feel worse.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.