Quotes About Depression

It may feel like the more you know about depression and the many forms it can take, the more questions you have. That's how I feel.

I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.

I was diagnosed with depression at fourteen, but I couldn't find any medication that did anything for me other than making things worse.

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

In late 2011, I watched a documentary by Stephen Fry called 'The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive.' He shared his story of bipolar disorder and depression, and it sounded exactly like me. I just cried.

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

Gertrude Stein said, "As everybody knows, fathers are depressing but our family had one." Mine had two and both in their mildest forms were depressing

Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes.

L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.' She looked paler, going through another depression, smoking in bed in her lilac room. The walls were the color of her veins. She was getting too thin, even for the modeling. . .Jacaranda died last winter when the flowering trees were bare. You couldn't even tell which ones once cried the purple blossoms she named herself after.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Thin, without fever, not cold, not warm, with empty eyes, without a shirt, the young man under the stuffed quilt heaves himself up, hangs around my throat and whispers in my ear, Doctor, let me die.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth.

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

I was bullied in school, but thankfully, I was surrounded by amazing family that love me and kept my head high and didn't allow me to fall into depression because of it.

The one thing that's depressing as a comedian to realize is that rock stars get groupies, and comedians don't.

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

The problem with my mind is it sways from side to side. The idea of me fantasizing about becoming an actor quickly led to depression. 'No, it was never going to happen to me.' I was a sixteen-year-old kid on the other side of the world from where they made movies. Scottish actors never really got play. There was Sean Connery, and that was it.

I imagine I was supposed to become a lawyer or something. But this was the Depression; the lawyers I saw were all driving cabs. So I thought, 'Well, if I'm going to be badly off anyway, I might as well be badly off in the theater, where you get used to it.'

Right now Rick didn't want anything from anyone, and for Jack this was horrible. It was like being rejected as a father figure. "Hey,

Here was a man who was trapped in a thicket of fear and confusion, powerless to escape. Dante's verse captured the feeling of my own depression and anxiety precisely. Wild animals blocked the man's path at every turn. Suddenly the shade of a great poet of antiquity, Virgil, appears before the man and promises to show him the hard road to a good place—but first the man has to trust him.