Depression Quotes - Page 17

• The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

  Karl Marx

  Strength, Pain, Philosophical

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• It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

  Adam Haslett

  Thinking, Achievement, Negative

  Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• 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.

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  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.

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• Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pain, Mind, Body

  Sententiae

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  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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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”

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

  Ned Vizzini

  Baby, Owl, Dollars

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• I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

  Ned Vizzini

  Suicide, Lying, Thinking

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• It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Silly, Tired, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.95, Faber & Faber

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• I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.

  Marian Keyes

  Space, People, Perspective

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• Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Patience, Mindfulness, Questions And Answers

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Cutting, Brain, Smarter

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.254, Macmillan

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• Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

  Stephanie S. Tolan

  Mental Illness, Cures, Inevitable

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• It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

  Julia Cameron

  Crazy, Feels Just, Important

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• Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

  Joan Baez

  Thinking, Mind, Down And

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Believe, People, Causes

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