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Quotes About Depression

They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
He only drinks when he gets depressed, ' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed?' 'Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink.
~ Terry Pratchett
Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up.
~ Paul Clayton
Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?
~ Kat Lowe, Dream Cat
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
~ Dorothy Rowe
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
~ Harry S. Truman
Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.
~ C. S. Lewis
Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I am too tired, even to be happy.
~ Gelindo Bordin
Those who are too arrogant to say thank you find boredom in life. They are often depressed, unhappy and lived an empty life.
~ Sesan Kareem
High living can lead to low feelings
~ John Rhein
To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that "sad" people must be coddled like helpless toddlers.
~ Emery Lord, When We Collided
Fear leads to worry. Worry leads to depression. But faith overcomes fear and worry.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Further evidence of perpetrators' lack of overt psychopathology is found in reports of their early reactions to the human suffering caused by their extraordinary evil. A wide range of perpetrator accounts reveal that initial involvement in killing often led to nightmares, anxiety attacks, debilitating guilt, depression, gastrointestinal problems, temporary impotence, hallucinations, substance abuse, numerous bodily complaints, and many other signs of stress reactions.
~ James Waller
I wake up the next morning and dress in all black, secret spy style. My mother eyes me and asks if I'm depressed, and I say, "No, I'm just cool.
~ Jami Attenberg
When you are depressed, believing you have failed at something regularly referred to as 'the plan of happiness' can very quickly generate despair.
~ Jane Clayson Johnson
I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.
~ Jane Smiley
The food authorities who led America through the Depression were overwhelmingly white, Anglo-Saxon women. Not unreasonably, their ideas about food reflected where they came from, culturally speaking. Who but a WASP could think up a diet based around milky chowders and creamed casseroles?
~ Jane Ziegelman
ECT is still used – in much more limited circumstances, but on the most vulnerable patients. It is still highly controversial. Its opponents say it is a licensed way of producing brain damage. Its proponents claim it saves deeply depressed patients from suicide. Doctor-led follow-up studies report on it much more favourably than patient-led studies. There is now general acceptance that it leads to memory loss, that this may be permanent and may be severe.
~ Janet Frame
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
~ Janice Dickinson
Richey James, the band's resident depressive and ropey rhythm guitarist, is less enthusiastic, despite appearing quite content. "I never find it exciting to go anywhere," he shrugs. "You get much more true information from literature than from travelling. Like, if I want to know about France, I'll buy the book.
~ Jason Arnopp
Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.
~ Jason Schwartzman
cualquier signo de infelicidad en cualquier forma, puede ser el cuerpo del dolor que despierta. Puede tomar la forma de irritación, impaciencia, humor sombrío, un deseo de hacer daño, ira, cólera, depresión, la necesidad de drama en su relación amorosa y así sucesivamente.
~ Eckart Tolle
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.
~ Eckhart Tolle