Depressive Quotes

• A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

  Jonathan Davis

  Depression, Depressing, Thinking

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• Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is.

  Chris Pratt

  Running, Body, Shapes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come to see the apartment, there was the thrill of the date. You want to be presentable, so you clean the place up, make sure it smells good, put on some mood lighting and mellow music.

  Anderson Cooper

  New York, Emotional, Smell

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• Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Depression, Humor

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• People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

  Judith Guest

  Life, Depression, People

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• Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

  Judith Guest

  Depression, Simple, Giving

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.225, Penguin

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

  Molly Ringwald

  Depression, Role Models, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Artist, Talking

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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

  Depression, Smart, Careers

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• One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Eye, Self, Average

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• I am a smiling depressive.

  Trisha Goddard

  Smile

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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

  Depression, Needs, Body

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

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• "Sometimes", says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence."

  Sally Brampton

  People, Broken, Wish

  Sally Brampton (2018). “Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression”, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The root of creativity is found in the need to repair the good object destroyed during the depressive phase.

  Melanie Klein

  Creativity, Roots, Needs

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• I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, Thinking, Awareness

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

  Robert Breault

  Envy, Society, Half

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• The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Beautiful, Believe, Chinese

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

  Karl Pilkington

  People, Too Much, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

  Kitty Kelley

  Happiness, Sadness, Men

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• I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Memories, People, Want

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• I think that for thousands of years people have made the observation that there are certain kinds of extreme depressive states that seem to be more likely to produce philosophers, people in the arts, unusually brilliant scientists.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Thinking, People

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.

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• All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

  T.C. Boyle

  Drug, Want, Manic

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Antidepressant medications, you still have some depressive thoughts. Antipsychotic medications, you still have some psychotic symptoms for the vast majority of the people taking them. But it gives them a little separation, and it doesn't control his behavior as much when you have a sad feeling, difficult thought, an odd perceptual experience. We can teach people those exact skills in therapy, you get longer-term benefits and without the side effects. So don't be sold just because a commercial interest wants to sell you things.

  Steven C. Hayes

  People, Giving, Feelings

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I would you say 25-50 percent is the likelihood that my cause of death will be suicide. Not because I am depressive but because I don't attach any moral baggage to suicide, and I have no religion to hold me back. I think suicide is our right, though I think we need to exercise it with knowledge that it can hurt others. So my assumption is that if I got a fatal disease, I'd end things before I got really sick.

  Gene Weingarten

  Suicide, Hurt, Exercise

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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