Depression Quotes - Page 17

• If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Motivating Humans : Goals, Emotions, and Personal Agency Beliefs". Book by Martin E. Ford, 1992.

  119 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Strength, Pain, Philosophical

  74 Copy quote

• In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Believe, Heart, Dark

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.154

  11 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  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.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Being Yourself, Men, Hypocrisy

  1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.20.

  127 Copy quote

  Show source

• People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, People, Perspective

  "The Prince of Reason". Interview with Robert Epstein, www.psychologytoday.com. June 9, 2016.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loneliness, Guy, Joy

  4 Copy quote

• This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are miserable because nothing really matters.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Differences, Sorrow, Matter

  Annie Edith Foster Jameson, J. E. Buckrose (1923). “What I Have Gathered”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Crazy, Party, Philosophical

  Beyond Good and Evil Ch. 4

  295 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pain, Mind, Body

  Sententiae

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• At the end of each therapy session, I waited for an evaluation, a clinical judgment, some kind of pronouncement on "my condition." I hoped I suffered from something serious, a clear syndrome, maybe requiring heavy medication and hospitalization. I pictured myself wearing a robe and paper slippers and looking out of a window with bars on it. I wanted to be relieved of the responsibility of taking any action to help myself.

  Ken Dornstein

  Responsibility, Bars, Paper

  Ken Dornstein (2007). “The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky”, p.134, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

  Kate Millett

  Voice, Anecdotes, Boards

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.283, University of Illinois Press

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

  Douglas Adams

  Giving, Mad, Trying

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.167, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.

  Tracy Thompson

  Dream, Hurt, Pain

  7 Copy quote

• Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence.

  Camille Paglia

  Smart, Careers, Alcohol

  19 Copy quote

• There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars....But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable....It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Stars, Pain, Loneliness

  36 Copy quote

• If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hurt, Cheer, Believe

  40 Copy quote

• In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

  Mother Teresa

  Night, Light, Heaven

  8 Copy quote

• There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK.

  Jim Carrey

  Long, People, Office

  26 Copy quote

• It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Two, Negative

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.395, Anchor

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Fun, Business, Nice

  113 Copy quote

• You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Heart, Disease, Faults

  4 Copy quote

• Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.

  Kate Millett

  Hate, Suffering, Welcome

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.72, University of Illinois Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

  Jim Carrey

  Long, People, Forever

  "What Broke Up Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey?" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. April 8, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

  Wole Soyinka

  Way, Pessimism, Found

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Feb 22, 2015

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

  Alan Lightman

  Sadness, Arousal, Acid

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.20, Vintage

  8 Copy quote

  Show source