Depression Quotes - Page 6

• I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

  Ned Vizzini

  Wake Up, Want, Nightmare

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• So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Thankful, Gratitude, Women

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “Guide My Feet”, p.26, Beacon Press

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• Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

  Winona Ryder

  Crazy, Dark, Broken

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• I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

  John Keats

  Sad, Water, Kick Ass

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 25 May 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 287

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• You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.

  Andrew Solomon

  Happiness, Truth, Taken

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.

  Claude Monet

  Painting, Torture, Disgusted

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• There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.

  Stephen Fry

  Wall, Black, Monsters

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• Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

  Winona Ryder

  Crazy, Exhausted, Terrible

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• ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Heart, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.87, Anchor

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• Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.

  Martin Seligman

  Self Esteem, Accomplish Nothing, Depressed Person

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• It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer.

  Hector Berlioz

  Running, Heart, Roots

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• Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.

  Art Buchwald

  War, Persons, Felt

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• Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.

  Tom Bosley

  Thinking, People, Mental Health

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Unique, Essence, Humanity

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.87, Macmillan

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• So you try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the unavoidable answer pops into your little warped brain: everyone.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Anger, Thinking, Mad

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

  Elayne Boosler

  Country, Strong Women, Depressing

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• I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative.

  Tim Burton

  Dark, Scary, Lucky

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Clouds, Things In Life, Sun

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.645, e-artnow

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• No amount of love can cure madness or unblacken one's dark moods. Love can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Pain, Dark, May

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Jan 11, 2012

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a certain amount of emotional energy; it saps your emotional strength and causes you to become emotionally exhausted (i.e., depressed).

  Lou Priolo

  Emotional, Guilt, Energy

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• Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

  Siobhan Fahey

  People, Laughing, Scare

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• I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Sailor

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• Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fall, Eye, Angel

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.155, Anchor

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