Depression Quotes - Page 4

• Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Praise, Refusal

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.122, Shambhala Publications

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• In my experience the best way to beat depression is to get involved in something inspiring.

  Pink

  Way, Beats, Get Involved

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• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Cheerful, Earth

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.69, Library of America

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• Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

  Andrew Solomon

  Grief, Bereavement, Proportion

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Grief, Panic

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• I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

  Franz Kafka

  Feelings, Feeling Lost, Unhappy

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• Depression is inertia.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inertia

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

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• Depression is rage spread thin.

  George Santayana

  Depressing, Pain, Suffering

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• 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.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Suffering, Important, Feels

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• The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.

  A. A. Milne

  Thinking, Feet, Forests

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.38, Egmont UK

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• We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

  Mary J. Blige

  Want, Spirit, Saved

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• Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Christian, Encouragement

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• Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars.

  Louis Mann

  Stars, Night, Remember

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• The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 16, 2015

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• The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

  Eric Maisel

  Strong, Artist, Personality

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Keep painting your demons.

  Jack Beal

  Painting, Demon

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• Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

  James Hillman

  Dysfunction, Cold, Miserable

  "The Soul Of Winter: A Call To Deepen" by Dr. Judith Rich, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2009.

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• Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

  James Hillman

  Doors, Kind

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• Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

  Susan Sontag

  Fit, Melancholy, Charm

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

  J. K. Rowling

  Proud, Rough Times, Ashamed

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  There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Song: Anthem

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• I have got so low that I have asked to be hospitalized and for deep narcosis (sleep). I cannot stand being awake. The pain is too much... Something has happened to me, this vital spark has stopped burning - I go to a dinner table now and I don't say a word, just sit there like a dodo. Normally I am the centre of attention, keeps the conversation going, - so that is depressing in itself. It's like another person taking over, very strange. The most important thing I say is 'good evening' and then I go quiet.

  Spike Milligan

  Depressing, Pain, Sleep

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• I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2?

  Ned Beatty

  Bipolar, Problem, Type

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• The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, God, Faith

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120”, p.332, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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