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Quotes About Depression

Meanwhile Sir Wat Scott of Buccleuch was riding westward from Edinburgh, free at last of the Governor's councils, and leaving behind him his good friend Tom Erskine, a distraught smuggler, and a depressed pig.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Reckless predictions of the second coming of Christ create an artificial excitement among believers followed by a corresponding depression. In addition, it hardens skeptics in their unbelief and provides new fodder for cynics to mock the Christian faith.
~ Doug Batchelor
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.
~ Douglas Adams
Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it, said Marvin. And what happened? pressed Ford. It committed suicide, said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold.
~ Douglas Adams
Sorry, did I say something wrong? said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God I'm so depressed. Here's another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life ! Don't talk to me about life.
~ Douglas Adams
Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.
~ Douglas Adams
maladjusted, socially isolated, sad, hunched, emotional cripple.
~ Douglas Adams
Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin. "And what happened?" pressed Ford. "It committed suicide," said Marvin, and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold.
~ Douglas Adams
But how are you, metalman?' said Ford. 'Very depressed.' 'What's up?' 'I don't know,' said Marvin, 'I've never been there.' 'Why,' said Ford squatting down beside him and shivering, 'are you lying face down in the dust?' 'It's a very effective way of being wretched,' said Marvin. 'Don't pretend you want to talk to me, I know you hate me.
~ Douglas Adams
I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed,' it said.
~ Douglas Adams
Oh God, I'm so depressed. Here's another of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life.
~ Douglas Adams
But what are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot?" "You think you've got problems," said Marvin
~ Douglas Adams
what are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No, don't bother to answer that, I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.
~ Douglas Adams
Kendini afallam??, yapayaln?z ve sevgisiz hissediyordu.
~ Douglas Adams
Life,' said Marvin, 'don't talk to me about life.
~ Douglas Adams
I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it,' said Marvin. 'And what happened?' pressed Ford. 'It committed suicide,' said Marvin
~ Douglas Adams
But how are you, metalman?" said Ford. "Very depressed.
~ Douglas Adams
Life," said Marvin, "don't talk to me about life." He
~ Douglas Adams
had a marriage and a child. If there were doubts, if there were periods of null depression or active despairing, these could only mean that I was ungrateful, insatiable, perhaps a monster.
~ Adrienne Rich
Yes, it's horrid having a death here. It makes everyone depressed. Of course—he was quite old." "He seemed quite well and cheerful yesterday," said Miss Marple, slightly resenting this calm assumption that everyone of advanced years was liable to die at any minute.
~ Agatha Christie
As the winds of the Great Depression blew across a Japan shaken to the very foundations of her economy, proletarian movements sprang up everywhere, including the field of fine art. At the other extreme was an art movement that advocated escape from the painful realities of the hard times, something that was called, in a sort of pidgin, "eroguro nan-sensu" ("erotic-grotesque nonsense").
~ Akira Kurosawa
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.
~ Alan Moore
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
~ Alastair Campbell
I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
~ Zooey Deschanel