Quotes About Depression

At some point, I kind of went through this weird existential crisis in high school where I was just really depressed.

I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being depressed until I'm happy. That's all there is to it. I need space.

This is one of the reasons I'm so interested in stories. Because everyone has a story in their life, and when their story doesn't make sense, that's when we get depressed, I think.

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

I got depressed so many times by my blue-collar life and self-conscious about the fact that I didn't go to college. I was always working super low-end jobs, being the complete opposite of what I wanted to be.

If you don't have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.

When my first film flopped, I got damn depressed.

Being depressed in black culture is not a thing. I just decided not to tell nobody, not even my friends.

When you are young you can be a bit nonchalant - it's cool to be depressed, and maybe a bit dark.

I get depressed when things are not right.

Listen, if Donald Trump were the man you elected president, you'd probably be pretty depressed, too.

Not only was I really, really depressed when I was not out to the world, but I just finished my NBC series, and I didn't think it was right to come out during that when I was playing a male character.

Writing my first book, 'Beautiful,' was the time that I was able to write the truth of it - that I was despairing at times, that I got depressed and felt like I couldn't cope. Writing became about being honest.

Stand-up wasn't a calling. It was more like, 'What can I do that isn't going to make me really depressed?'

To be an elite athlete is really hard when you're depressed.

I do get depressed sometimes, I don't know why. It's since I was a kid and it's just part of my personality.

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

I always find the most depressing stuff most interesting.

Being out of work is very depressing. But luckily I haven't been there for a long time.

When I am not acting, I am in depression, and then I do depression management.

I have treatment-resistant depression and I need to take medication to rebalance my brain chemistry - just like someone with asthma needs theirs.

I have money in my bank account. I have my own apartment. I have friends. I still go through and experience depression. You don't have to be ashamed of it.