Depression Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Crazy, Mean, Courses

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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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• 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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• Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

  Periander

  Good Life, Adversity, Prudent

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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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• Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

  William Gibson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

  Matt Lucas

  Uplifting, Enemy, Want

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Heart, Scratches, Done

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Positive, Heartbreak

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• For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Week, Minutes, Dies

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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