Depression Quotes - Page 21

• Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Mad, Insanity

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.135, Cosimo, Inc.

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• His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time while insanity rushed like spring flood through the upper layer of his soul, roaring and crashing, leaving terrible destruction in its wake, a deserted, ravaged country. No, he hadn't been crazy, but something inside him had been crazy.

  Christer Kihlman

  Country, Crazy, Spring

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• All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Safe, Agents, May

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• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Spiritual

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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  You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Happy

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

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• I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

  Walter Annenberg

  Feels

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• I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs.

  Martha Manning

  Running, Caring, People

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• I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

  Hermann Hesse

  Suicide, Children, Errors

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.73, Om Books International

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• I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.

  Kelly Holmes

  Cutting, Self, Stuff

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• I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Mother, Suicide, Father

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• I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

  Ben Moody

  Leader, Band, Mental Illness

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• It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

  Black Elk

  Roots, Bird, Tree

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free.

  Tracy Thompson

  Powerful, Get Better, Facts

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• Becoming active is the key remedy for depression.

  Pat Robertson

  Keys, Becoming, Remedy

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• The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain.

  Johnny Vegas

  Rain, Shopping, Feet

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• I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?

  Julian Fellowes

  Thinking, People, Dreary

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• The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

  Peter Høeg

  Pain, Mind, Paper

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.501, Macmillan

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• In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.

  Andrew Weil

  Emotional, Impact, Views

  "Dr. Weil talks about depression and his new book, Spontaneous Happiness". Interview with Susan Enfield, deliciousliving.com. December 20, 2011.

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• If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him; and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Future, Insanity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.272, Penguin

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• Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers, actors, artists, musicians-have a higher than normal incidence of such illnesses, and there are also a disproportionate number of alcoholics in these fields whose drinking may be an attempt to medicate the anxiety of depression.

  Tracy Thompson

  Drinking, Artist, Numbers

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• If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

  Ben Bernanke

  Earthquakes, Want, Study

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• That's where depression hits you most - your home life. It doesn't affect your work. I can't do this zany, wacky, funny thing any more. I haven't been like that for a long time.

  Lenny Henry

  Home, Funny Things, Long

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• With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.

  Keisha Buchanan

  Tears, Sometimes, Mental Illness

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• One of the most common outcomes of a depressive illness is a mistreated body. Now is the time to treat your body well. The more you learn to treat yourself well now, the less treatment you'll need down the road.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Needs, Body, Outcomes

  Harold H. Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams (1996). “How to Heal Depression”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

  Hugh Laurie

  Frustrated, Mental Illness

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