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Depression Quotes

 

Depression quotes can encourage you and help you feel like you're not alone when you're depressed. These quotes can also help give insight to depression when you are not depressed but someone near you is having a major depression, especially when you don't understand what they're going through and they can't express themselves in a way that is meaningful to you.

 

 

Depression is the inability to construct a future - Rollo May

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression. - Nicholas Cage

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling... People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile. - Judith Guest

Being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good nights rest. - anonymous

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts. - Penelope Sweets

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. - Jalal ad-Din Rumi

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. - Geoffrey Norman

If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast. You may escape without a mauling. - Dr. R. W. Shepherd

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. - Dodie Smith

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. - Charlie Brown

 

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

- Jesus the Messiah

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help. - Judy Collins

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives. - Tom Bosley

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle. - Patty Duke

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it. - Albert Ellis

 

Depression is rage spread thin. - George Santayana

"It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately." - A. A. Milne

Depression is inertia. - Dr. Wayne Dyer

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. - Elayne Boosler

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. - Grenville Kleiser

 

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not. - Tom Bosley

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. - Dorothy Rowe

The one who keeps the stars in their place can keep us in our place. There is no depression for good deeds, and that is all that business consists of, and that is our real business. - Henry N. Kost

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. - H.L. Mencken

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men. - Bruce Barton

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. - Elizabeth Wurtzel

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain ... it is entirely natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion. - William Styron

Depression is a choice. - A. B. Curtiss

Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease. - Judith Peacock

 

 

Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy. - Aaron T. Beck

Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, "forget it," or "it will pass," or "it could be worse" -- all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, "It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process. - Peter Koestenbaum

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

If you never change your mind, why have one? - Edward De Bono

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. - Eleanor Roosevelt

In moments of discouragement, defeat, or even despair, there are always certain things to cling to. Little things usually: remembered laughter, the face of a sleeping child, a tree in the wind-in fact, any reminder of something deeply felt or dearly loved. No man is so poor as not to have many of these small candles. When they are lighted, darkness goes away-and a touch of wonder remains. - Tombstone in Britain

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller

It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliott

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. - Guillaume Apollinaire

One ceases to recognize the significance of mountain peaks if they are not viewed occasionally from the deepest valleys. - Dr. Al Lorin

Take the first step, no more, no less, and the next will be revealed. - Ken Roberts

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

If you are cold, tea will warm you; If you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you. - Gladstone

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. - Arnold Benett

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

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. - Jeanette Winterson

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. - Pythagoras

Beyond Depression Quotes

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