Depression Quotes - Page 22

• The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Average, Television, Mood

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• It's like a kettle. If it's a kettle, you turn the kettle off, you know what I mean? I wish I could put a hole in my head and let the steam come out. The steam was getting so high and the pressure was just getting a little bit much for me.

  Frank Bruno

  Mean, Wish, Littles

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• We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way we do this--through love, work, family, faith, friends, denial, alcohol, drugs, or medication, we build these walls, stone by stone, over a lifetime.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Wall, Sadness, Sea

  FaceBook post by Kay Redfield Jamison from Dec 20, 2010

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• I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.

  Hugo Wolf

  Heart, Sleep, Soul

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• I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

  Melinda Gates

  Suicidal, Thinking, Car

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• We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Patience, Mind, Suffering

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• It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

  Emilie Autumn

  Suicide, Inevitable Death, Honor

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• The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Insanity, Insane

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• If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

  John Gay

  Heart, Caring, Men

  John Christopher Pepusch, John Gay (1962). “The beggar's opera”, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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• ..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

  Peter McWilliams

  Jobs, Children, Anxiety

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• The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

  Arthur Henderson

  Years, Political, World

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• ... my mind lay limp in an empty world.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mind, World, Empty

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• A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

  Molly Ringwald

  Role Models, People, Inspirational Running

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Creativity, Ideas

  "The Anatomy of Melancholy". Book by Robert Burton, 1621.

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• It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me.

  Martha Manning

  Giving, Speak, Mental Illness

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• True depression is a terribly real thing. Some of the noblest men and women in the world have been prone to it ... They may have no reason for feeling more unhappy at that particular period than at any other. Their worldly circumstances may be just what they have been for a long time past, and perfectly satisfactory. But there suddenly closes down on them a fog of the mind which exaggerates and distorts everything.

  J. E. Buckrose

  Real, Past, Men

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• There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.

  Peter McWilliams

  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, Courage, Stars

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

  Julian Barnes

  Spring, Levels, Normal

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• I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Sadness, People

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• Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.

  Samantha Abeel

  Lonely, Mean, Eye

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  Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Fear, Writing

  New York Times, January 8, 1981.

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• Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

  Marcel Proust

  Happiness, Sympathy, Grief

  A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Temps retrouve Vol. 2, Ch. 3

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• ..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.

  Peter McWilliams

  Character, Trying, Would Be

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• It's all a matter of history.
  Brandy is no solace.
  Librium only lies me down
  like a dead snow queen.
  Yes! I am still the criminal.

  Anne Sexton

  Queens, Lying, Snow

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