Depressive Quotes

• 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

  Depression, Depressing, Thinking

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• Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is.

  Chris Pratt

  Running, Body, Shapes

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

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• Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come to see the apartment, there was the thrill of the date. You want to be presentable, so you clean the place up, make sure it smells good, put on some mood lighting and mellow music.

  Anderson Cooper

  New York, Emotional, Smell

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

  Judith Guest

  Depression, Simple, Giving

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

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• People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

  Judith Guest

  Life, Depression, People

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• Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Depression, Humor

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• A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

  Molly Ringwald

  Depression, Role Models, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Artist, Talking

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• Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence.

  Camille Paglia

  Depression, Smart, Careers

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• One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Eye, Self, Average

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• I am a smiling depressive.

  Trisha Goddard

  Smile

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• One of the most common outcomes of a depressive illness is a mistreated body. Now is the time to treat your body well. The more you learn to treat yourself well now, the less treatment you'll need down the road.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Depression, Needs, Body

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams (1996). “How to Heal Depression”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• "Sometimes", says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence."

  Sally Brampton

  People, Broken, Wish

  Sally Brampton (2018). “Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression”, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.

  Melanie Klein

  Creativity, Roots, Needs

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• I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic-depressive illness. If lithium were not available to me, or didn't work for me, the answer would be a simple no... and it would be an answer laced with terror. But lithium does work for me, and therefore I can afford to pose the question. Strangely enough, I think I would choose to have it. It's complicated.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Simple, Thinking, Choices

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

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• Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Ideas, Profound, Ordinary

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• When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

  Karl Abraham

  Psychosis, World, Patient

  Karl Abraham (1968). “Selected Papers, with an Introductory Memoir by Ernest Jones”

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• I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

  Patrick Marber

  Tendencies, Vigilant

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• The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought, for instance, that certain deer in paleontological times succumbed as they acquired overly-heavy horns. The mutations must be considered blind, they work, are thrown forth, without any contact of interest with their environment. In depressive states, the mind may be seen in the image of such an antler, in all its fantastic splendour pinning its bearer to the ground.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Mind, Tragedy, Mutation

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• Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Remember, Manic

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• I was in danger of having my children taken away from me when I needed five weeks in psychiatric care ... There is the smiling depressive which is the biggest time bomb and when they go they usually go with a bang, which was me.

  Trisha Goddard

  Children, Taken, Bangs

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• With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

  Frank Ocean

  Art, Feelings, Knows

  “Frank Ocean: the most talked-about man in music” by Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2012.

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• The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive.

  Stephen Fry

  Thinking, Swings, People

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• By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.

  Eric Schlosser

  Thinking, Birth, Resilient

  "Food fight". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2006.

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• I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.

  Britt Ekland

  Beautiful, Husband, Brain

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