Depression Quotes

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

I think most readers would say the same. Most would choose Midori. And the protagonist, of course, c...

The feeling of the wind, the sound of rushing water, the sense of sunlight breaking through the clou...

I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be ...

That's the most important thing for a sickness like ours: a sense of trust. If I put myself in this ...

That's how lonely and sad I was. Dying is not that hard. Lime the air being sucked slowly out of a r...

I was a vacant room. Inside, the music produces only a dry, hollow echo.

What i'm trying to say is this. A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certai...

How can I put this? There's a king of gap between what I think is real and what's really real. I get...

Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je ne serai,...

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

I don't know why we live—the gift of life comes to us from I don't know what source or for what purp...

To combat the confusion and depression that assault me when I come off the road in the middle of a t...

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

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wound...

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my s...

The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which ...

The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this e...

So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but...

…for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is ...

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited a...

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusio...

Like an attack this melancholy comes from time to time. I don't know at what intervals, and slowly c...

If you are in a bad mood go for a walk.If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk.

He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.

If that made him heavy company sometimes, so be it. Who decreed that life was to be one long rowdy m...

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...

A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to ...

if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, str...

To fall in the void as I fell: none of you knows what that means… I went down into the void, to the ...

If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoan...

I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I ...

This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling is...

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and...

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being a...

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness...

If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things ref...

Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads.

I feel impossibly sad and like I'll die, what can we do?

I am a sick man - oh, not my body. It is my soul, my brain. I seem to have lost all values. I care f...

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies? 'Sister Sonja often asked me, as though to unde...

I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole str...

In a daydream I used to have, all these places were points of happiness to me; all these places were...

Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If yo...

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony...

If, however, I am allowed to think that you and yours feel an interest in my fate and actions, it ma...

Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was...

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed t...

I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned" - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of th...

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that qu...

He: What’s the matter with you?Me: Nothing.Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly n...

Misery is a no U-turns, no stopping road. Travel down it pushed by those behind, tripped by those in...

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

This was an adequate enough performance, as improvisations go. The only problem was that my entire e...

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested -...

As it happens I am comfortable with the Michael Laskis of this world, with those who live outside ra...

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understoo...

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the...

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in...

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two...

But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Haz...

She said she couldn't handle it,’ he told me. ‘I’m about to lose my eyesight and she can’t handle it...

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the sid...

still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was...

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.those seem to be the two ...

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two...

i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two...

weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as...

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it ...

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.

When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first sho...

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distru...

When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first sho...

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distru...

When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first sho...

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distru...

When something drops into your life that seems to threaten your future, remember this: the first sho...

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of t...

...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distru...

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviola...

I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'l...

I wonder Pa went so easy. I wonder Grampa didn' kill nobody. Nobody never tol' Grampa where to put h...