Depression Quotes

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru.

True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Planning is an unnatural process; it is much more fun to do something. The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and depression.

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

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.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

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

I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me about new Zoloft or Prozac and now I just take three pills a day and I blend right into this horrible inbred corporate landscape.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.