Depression Quotes - Page 27

• If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

  Martha Graham

  Giving, Faces, Disease

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• Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Together, Said

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.55, BookBaby

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• There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Witty, Adversity

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• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Struggle, Blow, Order

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I will find a way out or make one.

  Robert Peary

  Way, Mental Illness, Illness

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• Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.

  Charles Shaar Murray

  Broken, Trying, May

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• The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Soul, Mental Illness, Innocent

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.391, University of Michigan Press

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• I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Song, Baby, Sleep

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Buddha of Suburbia”, p.164, Faber & Faber

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• Madness is a kind of mental suicide.

  Stephen King

  Suicide, Madness, Kind

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.504, Simon and Schuster

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• Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?

  Aristotle

  Art, Philosophy, Black

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.3493, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

  Joseph Heller

  Men, Insane, Illness

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• ... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.

  D. H. Lawrence

  World, Want, Madness

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1405, Delphi Classics

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• She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Two, Long, Insanity

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3771, Delphi Classics

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• When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

  Sylvia Plath

  Crazy, Insane, Mental Illness

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• Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, Choices, Joy

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• Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

  R. D. Laing

  Mad, Religion, Mental Illness

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• A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Hands, Echoes, Anxiety

  Charles Robert Maturin (2008). “Melmoth the Wanderer: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's great to be young and insane.

  Michael Keaton

  Insane, Mental Illness, Young

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• It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Humorous, Responsibility, Profound

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• My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

  William Godwin

  Mind, Loathing, Murmuring

  William Godwin (1831). “Caleb Williams”, p.347

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• But what is madness, if not being able to control your own mind?

  Lady Victoria Leatham

  Mind, Able, Madness

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• People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

  Heather Armstrong

  Dog, Children, Writing

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• Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

  Andrew Solomon

  Loneliness, Fading, World

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Stars, Writing, Numbness

  Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

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• I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mental Illness, Illness, Womb

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.84, Anchor

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