Depression Quotes - Page 2

• A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

  Jonathan Davis

  Depressing, Thinking, People

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• Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakingly created for themselves. It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behavior of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos.

  Tim Lott

  Character, Unique, Expression

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• There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Cancer, Sadness, Depressed Person

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

  Andrew Solomon

  Sad, Despair, Flaws

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

  Andrew Solomon

  Expression, People, Feel Good

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

  Anne Sexton

  Thinking, Light, Caves

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

  Judith Guest

  Simple, Giving, Feelings

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.225, Penguin

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• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.

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• Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Mean

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• Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Stress, Abundance

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Nov 18, 2015

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• Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sad, Hurt, Healthy

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

  Stephen Fry

  Being Depressed, Lethargy, Best Things

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Romantic, Uplifting

  "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• To perceive is to suffer.

  Aristotle

  Life, Education, Depressing

  Aristotle (2004). “The Works of Aristotle: Aristotle on the parts & progressive motion of animals, the problems, on indivisible lines to which is added Thomas Taylor's The elements of the true arithmetic of infinites”

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• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is not yet listening.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Listening, Misery, Middle

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  The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013

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• Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Happiness, Sad

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• Depression is the inability to construct a future.

  Rollo May

  Sad, Depressing, Future

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, ch. 9, 1969.

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• There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.

  Miriam Toews

  Dark, Mirrors, House

  Miriam Toews (2001). “Swing Low: A Life”, p.179, Arcade Publishing

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

  Albert Ellis

  Clinical Depression, Given

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