Depression Quotes

I'll fail.At schoool.Failing at school is failing at life.

~ Ned Vizzini

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

~ Sylvia Plath

…it seemed to Kirsch that the most reliable guide to the mental landscape of a patient was the patient himself. He was better placed to explain his behaviour and his experiences than anyone else. Yet wherever Kirsch went, the patient was the very last person anyone thought to consult. Because, of course, the patient was insane.

~ Philip Sington

Selfish love hurts, selfless love heals.

~ Rob Liano

Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they run in our patterns of awareness.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Its hard to say what's wrong when nothing is going right!

~ Sherif A. El-Mawardy

Silence is one of worst, most vocal enemies, yet people go through many bouts of depression not sharing what is happening. People don’t understand that, but as someone who suffers from it, I can tell you that it’s difficult to be objective about the gray. I described depression to my therapist as a misty fog that surrounds me, heavy on my shoulders, pervading everything and nothing at all. I liken depression to a bird stealing into the depths of your soul, pecking at your disposition until nothing is left. And that is when you break into pieces.

~ Rachel Thompson

Power as a beneficial tool for aspiring achievers is primarily made up into four folds;1. Power to control emotions,2. Power to make right decisions,3. Power to stand against depression,4. Power to excel in innovations.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.

~ Arzum Uzun

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

~ Rod Steiger

And that fear I'd felt, the disembodying confusion, seemed to be a drug I was now addicted to, because moving through the ordinary world- watching CNN, reading the Times, walking to Sant Ambroeus to have a coffee at the bar- made me feel exhausted, even depressed. Perhaps I was suffering from the same problem as the man who'd sailed around the world and now on land, facing his farmhouse, his wife and kids, understood that the constancy of home stretching out before him like a dry flat field was infinitely more terrifying than any violent squall with thirty-foot swells.

~ Marisha Pessl

She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.

~ Nicole Krauss

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

~ Lynn Austin

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

~ William Styron

Dear God,what is my purpose of life?What should I do to find it?Once I found it, will I become stronger?....Oh no, my mind is blank.a strange sound kept ringing in my head.What sound is that...?Ah, I know.It's...The sound of emptiness.

~ Chica Umino

depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases.

~ William Styron

People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.

~ J.s.b. Morse

At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts

~ William Styron

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

~ John Eldredge

Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one onf the things that discipline - training - is about.

~ James Clavell

You will never attain and maintain more than you think you deserve.

~ Rob Liano

People take ownership of sickness and disease by saying things like MY high blood pressure MY diabetes, MY heart disease, MY depression, MY! MY! MY! Don't own it because it doesn't belong to you!

~ Stella Payton

When a child receives the message, even subtly or indirectly, that his emotions don't matter, he will grow up feeling, somewhere deep inside, that he himself doesn't matter.

~ Jonice Webb

In a daydream I used to have, all these places were points of happiness to me; all these places were lifeboats to my small drowning soul, for I would imagine myself entering and leaving them, and just that - entering and leaving over and over again - would see me through a bad feeling I did not have a name for. I only knew it felt a little like sadness but heavier than that.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

~ Osamu Dazai

Here in the bathroom with me are razor blades. Here is iodine to drink. Here are sleeping pills to swallow. You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you reenlist.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I am not depressed; my life is just shit. As a consequence of my not being depressed, I am not like them. You need to know this from the very off. You need to know I, Arch Fry, will not allow myself to be neatly pigeonholed, erroneously labelled or closed off in some tidy little box - one to be shelved away and conveniently forgotten about. No, I am not depressed: NOT. DEPRESSED.You see, I’m just not stuck in some deep unassailable chasm like all the rest, like all these other poor fuckers who’ve so readily accepted that noose of a word.

~ Tom Conrad

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

~ John Berger

Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.

~ Shannon Celebi

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

She would let a speeding automobile hit her to show them all how unloved she was.

~ Lisa Dierbeck

Clearly our current form of medicine will bankrupt us and simultaneously keep the chemical industry the number one money-maker as physicians nurture a nation of drugged zombies.

~ Sherry A. Rogers

Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get mixed up at all with anybody anymore.

~ Lynne Reid Banks

Food allergy is one of the least diagnosed and most prevalent causes of symptoms, especially depression.

~ Sherry A. Rogers

Perhaps the relevant truth- and it's one whose existence was apparent to my wife, and I'm sure to much of the world, long before it became apparent to me-is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.

~ Joseph O'neill

...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

~ Joseph O'neill

Some are born richWhile others poor,Some are born freeWhile others captives,Some are born blessedWhile others deprived,Some are born strongWhile others weak,And some are born greatWhile others slaves.It is only in this lifeblessings are unequal.

~ Emmanuel Aghado

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.

~ Veronica Roth

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

~ Kay Redfield Jamison

We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness,this is where we are.

~ Danielle Rohr