Depression Quotes - Page 5

• Storms make trees take deeper roots.

  Dolly Parton

  Life, Strength, Being Strong

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2009

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• Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

  Euripides

  Sadness, Adversity, Blow

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Fall, Night

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  One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.22, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian Inspirational, Achievement, Usual

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• In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Believe, Feel Better

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• Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

  Lawrence Klein

  Growing Up, Impact, Careers

  "Lawrence R. Klein - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 2005.

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

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Attitude, Gossip

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• The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.

  Sylvia Plath

  Silence, Feminism, Classic

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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• Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

  Sivananda

  Inspiring, Attitude, Regret

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• The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Sound, Gauges, Looks

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• In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Literature, Way, Strange

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

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• Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.

  Stephen Fry

  Giving, Tears, Together

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• Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

  Homer

  Teaching, Names, Parent

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• Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

  Helen Reddy

  Waste, Wasting Time, Concerned

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• Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

  Pythagoras

  Fear, Men, Worry

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• Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

  William Styron

  Pain, Suffering, Quality

  William Clark Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

  Tom Bosley

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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

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• Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Inspiring, Funny Inspirational, Attitude

  "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.

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• It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

  William Styron

  Crush, Pain, Soul

  "Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness". Book by William Styron (Chapter VI), 1990.

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spiritual, War, Marijuana

  "Bruise Control". www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2000.

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• Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

  Andrew Solomon

  Balance, Trying, Goats

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Thinking, Mysterious Things

  Pierre bk. 4 (1852)

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• Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Excess, Trials

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.192, Zondervan

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• When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Book, Clouds

  Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”

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