Quotes About Depression

Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

I feel like I'm eighty years old. I'm tired of life and my mind wants to die.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

surrounded by people but alone.

I can only tell you how I felt. Ugly. Disgusting. Stupid. Small. Worthless. Forgotten. It just feels like there's no choice. Like it's the most logical thing to do because what else is there? You think, 'No one will even miss me. They won't know I'm gone. The world will go on, and it won't matter that I'm not here. Maybe it's better if I was never here.

And maybe Finch didn't feel like he had a choice, or maybe he wasn't trying to kill himself at all but just going in search of the bottom. But I'll never really know, will I? Then

The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe—I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.

Maybe he knew it, and maybe that's why he decided to crash into the glass a little harder than normal that day. He would have died in here, only slower, because that's what happens when you're a Finch. The marriage dies. The love dies. The people fade away.

I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.

And now I just want to not exist.

sometimes you just feel sad and you can't explain it.

We are as tired of each other's company as we are of the cold monotony of the black night and of the unpalatable sameness of our food. Physically, mentally, and perhaps morally, then, we are depressed, and from my past experience... I know that this depression will increase.

There are bills and supermarket flyers. Also a magazine addressed to a former tenant. The cover promises tips for helping depressive people. What to say: I'm sorry that you're in so much pain. I am not going to leave you. I am going to take care of myself, so you don't need to worry that your pain might hurt me.

Wolverine and Spider-Man on depression: --Wanna know why it's called "depression"? Because it IS depressing... A death isn't like losing a job or getting divorced. You don't "get over it." You have to integrate it into your life. Learn to live with it. But... Life does get better. --Someday...? --Best you can hope for. --Someday.