DEPRESSION QUOTES III

quotations about depression

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Mistral's Kiss


Laugh at depression and depression will join in.

JOSEPH JULIUS BONKOWSKI

Quote Me


The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket)

The Bad Beginning


I was depressed ... I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.

WOODY ALLEN

Annie Hall


Like those rare conditions which causes a person's own immune system to assault itself, depression is a disorder wherein the self attacks the self.

TERRENCE REAL

I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression


My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.

SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Either/Or


I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

HENRY ROLLINS

The Portable Henry Rollins


A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self -- a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able to watch with dispassionate curiosity as his companion struggles against the oncoming disaster, or decides to embrace it. There is a theatrical quality about all this, and during the next several days, as I went about stolidly preparing for extinction, I couldn't shake off a sense of melodrama -- a melodrama in which I, the victim-to-be of self-murder, was both the solitary actor and lone member of the audience.

WILLIAM STYRON

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness


Depression is nature's way of telling you that you've got complex social problems that the mind is intent on solving. Therapies should try to encourage depressive rumination rather than try to stop it, and they should focus on trying to help people solve the problems that trigger their bouts of depression.

PAUL W. ANDREWS

"Depression's Evolutionary Roots", Scientific American, August 25, 2009


Depression is a choice.

A.B. CURTISS

Depression Is a Choice


The difference between common sadness and clinical depression is like the difference between breathing hard after a fast sprint and being chronically short-of-breath. The former is expected and normal, given the stress of the sprint; the latter is an abnormal condition.

WALTER F. MCDERMOTT

Understanding Combat Related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder


The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.

NINA LACOUR

Hold Still


It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

NICK HORNBY

High Fidelity


Something crucial about depression ... the smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES

The Marriage Plot


She married her sadness and slept with happiness on the weekends.

CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER

Remington Typewriter Poetry


Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.

CALISTA FLOCKHART

Ally McBeal


People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

ANN LANDERS

attributed, The Mammoth Book of Zingers


Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Letters to a Young Poet


I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

J. K. ROWLING

USA Today, Mar. 23, 2008


The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

LEONARD COHEN

International Herald Tribune, Nov. 4, 1988