Depression Quotes - Page 9

• Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loneliness, Guy, Needs

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.49, A&C Black

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• A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Melancholy, Appearance

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.126, The Floating Press

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• I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

  Ned Vizzini

  Sad, Suicide, Sleep

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• Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

  Voltaire

  Thinking, Bipolar, Madness

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• What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Bipolar, Wheels, Strange

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• I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

  Rube Goldberg

  Thinking, Littles, Idiot

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• You must do the things you think you cannot do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  You Learn by Living ch. 2 (1960)

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• The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Our Society, Excuse, Reason

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• We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

  Al Dubin

  Men, Sky, Done

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• From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

  Steve Buyer

  Country, Struggle, Age

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• When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Believe, Mean, Depressed Person

  Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.197, Psychology Press

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• I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Character, Offering, Agony

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

  Richard Marx

  Sadness, Writing, Profound

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• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

  William Shakespeare

  Funny, Husband, Sadness

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [42]

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• It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.

  Zaha Hadid

  Depressing, Decision, Looks

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• I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Happiness, Fighting, Thinking

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.

  Bob Geldof

  Thinking, Opposites, Joy

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• If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

  Lynda Barry

  Depressing, Trying, Looks

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• Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

  Johan Huizinga

  Beautiful, Confusing, Age

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• People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Ambition, Fighting, Thinking

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• The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Roots, World, Recognition

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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• Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

  John Green

  Life, Real, Cancer

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

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• There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop me. I've just learned to move it to one side if I want to work.

  David St. John

  Moving, Writing, Anxiety

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• My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

  Lee Krasner

  Depressing, Consistency, Painful

  Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1999). “Lee Krasner”, Harry N. Abrams

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• I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Beautiful, Moving, Eye

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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