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Quotes About Depression

How long have you been here? (Jericho) Don't know. Again, tried to count once, got depressed so I stopped. I find it easier to just go with the flow. Ease with the peas. (Asmodeus) Ease with the peas? (Jericho) Yeah, that's not a happy memory, either. Let's forget I mentioned it. (Asmodeus)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.
~ Daniel Johns
Everything seemed meaningless to me. All of a sudden. My own life, the lives of others, of animals of plants, the whole world. It no longer fitted together.
~ Erlend Loe
I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.
~ Melanie Lynskey
Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.
~ Paulo Coelho
That's a horrible thought. I guess cheese or wine. I think I might be too depressed to eat if I had to eat only one thing for the rest of my life.
~ Rachael Ray
Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.
~ Ricky Hatton
There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.
~ Stephen Baldwin
I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.
~ Terry Gilliam
My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.
~ Juliana Hatfield
I think that most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.
~ Kirsten Dunst
I think, life is miserable.
~ Mary Gaitskill
I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.
~ Mary Oliver
Any area you slough off in your life will reflect in your meditation. Be happy when you could be depressed. Push jealous, fear, and anger out of your mind. Don't feel sorry for yourself.
~ Frederick Lenz
you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...
~ John Geddes
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
~ John Green
What you must understand about me is that I'm a deeply unhappy person.
~ John Green
in 1906, ill and depressed, unhappy about the continuing opposition of many leading scientists to this kinetic theory of gases, he killed himself
~ John Gribbin
In Britain, doctors now use exercise as a first-line treatment for depression, but it's vastly underutilized in the United States
~ John J. Ratey
One of the first symptoms of depression, even before your mood drops to new lows, is sleep disturbance. Either you can't get up or you can't get to sleep or both.
~ John J. Ratey
In October of 2000 researchers from Duke University made the New York Times with a study showing that exercise is better than sertraline (Zoloft) at treating depression
~ John J. Ratey
exercise is as effective as certain medications for treating anxiety and depression.
~ John J. Ratey
One year on Christmas Eve he told us that Santa wasn't giving out any presents because he was depressed and suicidal.
~ John Leguizamo
I always knew I'd be preaching to the choir. Slap the title 'Dumpty' on a book of political humor, and your bias is glaringly obvious. From the beginning, I've intended these verses for people who oppose our current President, hoping to briefly yank them out of their chronic depression at his persistent grip on executive power.
~ John Lithgow