quotations about depression
She married her sadness and slept with happiness on the weekends.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER
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Remington Typewriter Poetry
My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Either/Or
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
Depression
Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
The Marriage Plot
Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.
CALISTA FLOCKHART
Ally McBeal
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
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
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
DODIE SMITH
I Capture the Castle
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
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
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
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
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
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
The difference between everyday sadness and clinical depression can now be seen using new computer imaging technology, the PET scan, using colors to show the metabolism and blood flow in the brain.... We say when a person is depressed that their mood is blue. If you look at the PET scan of a person who's depressed, we can see it in terms of colors. If you look at the brain of a person who's normal, you will see reds and greens and yellows and some areas of blue. If you look at the brain of a person who's in a depression on a PET scan, you will see almost all blue and green. In other words, the person is literally blue.
ROD STEIGER & JAN FAWCETT
Voices of an Illness
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
ANN LANDERS
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Zingers
It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.
NICK HORNBY
High Fidelity
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
Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.
JASMINE WARGA
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Depression is a choice.
A.B. CURTISS
Depression Is a Choice