Depression Quotes - Page 8

• That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Pain, Being Sad, Want

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

  Dodie Smith

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  I Capture the Castle (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3

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• When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

  Truman Capote

  Nowhere To Turn, Gas, Turns

  Truman Capote (2012). “Answered Prayers”, p.54, Vintage

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• Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Patience, Encouragement

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• It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

  Stephen Fry

  Beauty, Laughter, Philosophy

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.93, Random House

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• In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Depressing, Faithful

  "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, 1987.

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• May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.

  Max Ehrmann

  Friendly, World, May

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.11, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Frustration, Giving

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• Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer, Crying includes all the principles of Yoga.

  Kripalvananda

  Spiritual, Song, Prayer

  "The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom" edited by Kelsie Besaw, (p. 23), January 2, 2014.

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• I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

  Bob Dylan

  Mind

  Bob Dylan, Wolf Biermann (2003). “Eleven outlined epitaphs”

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• [I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living (as opposed to dying) alone. That nothing-not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state-will make the past disappear. Only time and patience heal things. I learned that cutting up your arms in an attempt to make the pain move from inside to outside, from soul to skin, is futile. That death is a cop-out. I tried all of these things.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Sex, Pain, Moving

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• One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Sadness, Overwhelmed, Oneself

  Jackie Kennedy's remarks after President Kennedy's assassination, 1963.

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• They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.

  Conor Oberst

  Moon, Black, Way

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• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Inspirational, Sad, Crazy

  "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.

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• Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Running, Spiritual

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• The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

  Leonard Cohen

  Depressing, Psychics, Landscape

  The International Herald Tribune, November 4, 1988.

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• But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

  Bob Geldof

  Views, People, Etc

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• I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

  Joyce Meyer

  Enemy, Poison, Way

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• A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Witty, Jobs

  "Ronald Reagan: A Man True to His Word".

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• In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lying, Views, United States

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spiritual, War, Our Generation

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. ... You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're 'not at all like yourself but will be soon,' but you know you won't.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Jobs, Divorce, Broken

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.

  Lauren Slater

  Self, Two, Roots

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• Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

  John Keats

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.824, Delphi Classics

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• When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

  Jesse Jackson

  Work, Racism, Political

  Quoted in David Frost, The Americans (1970)

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