Depression Quotes - Page 24

• I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression.

  Tom Glazer

  Senior, Jobs, College

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• He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

  Dennis Lehane

  Numbness, Weary, Clinicals

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• I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.

  Linda Grant

  War, Decision, Parent

  Linda Grant (1991). “Blind Trust”, Fawcett Books

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• I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Form

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• The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

  Linda Hamilton

  Fall, Able, Mental Health

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• If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Fighting, Sinking, Lifelong

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Daughter, Struggle, Successful

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• There's no grand excellence to it. In my experience it was just almost the gulaggy boringness of it that'll kill you. You're just in this murk. And you're with other humans, but you lose all your human skills and it's just like you're in this plastic bag and you can't quite connect with people. You lose your ability to transmit electricity or something, and to receive it.

  Neko Case

  Skills, People, Excellence

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• On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.

  Anthony Loyd

  Desire, Despair, Way

  Anthony Loyd (2014). “My War Gone By, I Miss It So”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

  Claire Forlani

  Suicide

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• I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

  Winston Churchill

  Water, Bipolar, Looks

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• The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doors, Iron, Spirit

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• Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

  Rob Delaney

  Hard Work, Compassion, Overcoming

  "Rob Delaney: 'Twitter has rocketed me to a whole new level of standup'" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2013.

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• We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Suicide, Madness

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• They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Steps, Helping, Madness

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  Irving Fisher

  Funny, Money, Creativity

  "Incoming Presidential Speech: International Society for the Systems Sciences 43rd Annual Meeting" by Peter Corning, complexsystems.org. June 02, 2015.

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• Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Strong, Lying, Night

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.163, Grove Press

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• A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Hands, Mouths

  D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

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• I kept pushing against the black, though, almost a reflex. I wasn't trying to lift it. I was just resisting. Not allowing it to crush me completely. I wasn't Atlas, and the black felt as heavy as a planet; I couldn't shoulder it. All I could do was not be entirely obliterated.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Crush, Black, Trying

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• I find myself frequently depressed - perhaps more so than any other person here. And I find no better cure for that depression than to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and seek to realize afresh the power of the peace-speaking blood of Jesus, and His infinite love in dying upon the cross to put away all my transgressions.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Blood

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• You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.

  Steven Wright

  Nice, Scare, Mental Illness

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• I could also distinguish the glint of a special puddle (the one Krug had somehow perceived through the layer of his own life), an oblong puddle invariably acquiring the same form after every shower because of the constant spatulate shape of a depression in the ground. Possibly something of the kind may be said to occur in regard to the imprint we leave in the intimate texture of space. Twang. A good night for nothing.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Good Night, Space, Special

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Bend Sinister”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Night, People, Heaven

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 33: Sermons 1938-2000”, p.704, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death." There was no sin in Him, and consequently none in His deep depression.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Heart, Soul

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• I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Iron, Despair

  James Thomas, John Bunyan (2009). “Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English”, p.21, Moody Publishers

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