Depression Quotes - Page 15

• The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.

  Mason Cooley

  Fall, Exhausted, Undertakings

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• Every time I get happy
  the Nana-hex comes through.
  Birds turn into plumber's tools,
  a sonnet turns into a dirty joke,
  a wind turns into a tracheotomy,
  a boat turns into a corpse.

  Anne Sexton

  Happiness, Dirty, Wind

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• A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

  Sylvia Plath

  Yesterday, Vision, Use

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.314, Anchor

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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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• When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Reflection, Men, Insane

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (ZAMM)". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

  Nora Ephron

  Crazy, Insane Person, People

  "What a piece of work is man!: Camp's unfamiliar quotations from 2000 B.C. to the present", (p. 320), 1989.

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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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• 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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• The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  About Yourself, Grows, Universe

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• It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

  Mother Teresa

  Light, Giving, Darkness

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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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• 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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• There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Happiness, Eulogy

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• I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  Jack Dee

  Issues, Feelings, Common

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• Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, Earth, Mental Illness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.93, Vintage

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• In a mad world only the mad are sane.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Crazy, Insane World, Mad

  "Fictional character: Kyoami". "Ran", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

  Meister Eckhart

  Sympathy, Light, Darkness

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• Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Crazy, Girl Interrupted, Feelings

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.95, Vintage

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• Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Life, Loneliness, Sunshine

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.36, Penguin

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• Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Fighting, Vitality, Pessimism

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• 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.

  John Lennon

  Life, Running, Art

  "The Beatles Anthology". Book by The Beatles, 2000.

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• Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Years, Black, Mind

  Sebastian Faulks (2000). “Charlotte Gray: A Novel”, Vintage

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• As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sight, Appearance, Embalming

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.76, Booklassic

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• When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

  Richey Edwards

  Pain, Cutting, Littles

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• It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it can be a candle burning gently and harmlessly in your home, or it can be a full-fledged forest fire that destroy almost everything and is controlled by almost nothing. It can also be so much in-between

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Home, Sadness, Fire

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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