Depression Quotes - Page 14

• Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

  James Buckham Kennedy

  Wise, Adversity, Soul

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• A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

  Ben H. Winters

  Blue, Blood, Body

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• At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

  Robert Carlyle

  People, Together

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• A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Hobbies, Bad Mood, Doldrums

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• The greatest source of unhappiness comes from inside.

  Jim Rohn

  Unhappiness, Source

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 11, 2016

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• 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.

  Philippe Starck

  Happy, Color, Yellow

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

  Lil Wayne

  Stars, Xanax, Party

  Song: I Feel Like Dying, Album: THE DROUGHT IS OVER PT.2 (CARTER 3 SESSIONS MIXTAPE)

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• in a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

  Marilyn French

  Doors, Matter, Way

  Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

  Rollo May

  Friendship, Hate, Opposites

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

  Mitch Albom

  Morning, Self, Giving

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.57, Broadway Books

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• At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Suffering, Sixteen, Knows

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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• I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

  Herbert Hoover

  Great Depression, Economic, Convinced

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.

  Katharine O'Shea

  Real, Needs, Scar

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• Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Faith, Literature

  "Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau".

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• The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes

  Art Linkletter

  Jobs, Depth, Pay

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  Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

  Philip K. Dick

  Good Night, Insomnia, Middle Of The Night

  Philip K. Dick (1990). “The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report”

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• What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Positive, Attitude, Father

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.688, Vintage

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• For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

  Bette Midler

  Speak, Eating, Ends

  Bette Midler (2014). “A View from A Broad”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Death, Pain, Sadness

  "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

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

  Carl Jung

  Funny, Witty, Crazy

  Quoted in the Observer, 19 Jul 1975.

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• You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

  Franz Kafka

  Health, World Suffering, Holding Back

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

  Rollo May

  Ideas, Creating, Innovation

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Mental Illness, Inexplicable, Streaks

  Octave Mirbeau (1997). “Torture Garden”, Dedalus Limited

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• Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.

  David Karp

  Emotional, Unhappy, Normal

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