Top Depression Quotes

Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you.

It is not depression or anxiety that truly hurts us. It is our active resistance against these states of mind and body. If you wake up with low energy, hopeless thoughts, and a lack of motivation - th...

Depression Definition

(n.) The act of depressing.

(n.) The state of being depressed; a sinking.

(n.) A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.

(n.) Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.

(n.) Dejection; despondency; lowness.

(n.) Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.

(n.) The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.

(n.) The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.

(n.) A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.

No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out.

Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.

At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I ha...

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne.

I don't think I knew what depression was. I knew I felt funny sometimes and I was different. I think it's a musician thing. That's why I write music. You know, I'm not like some messed up person. Ther...

My brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response...

Oh my life is so awful, it's just so awful to be me, you don't know what it's like waking every morning and finding the whole horror of being yourself still there.

The irony is that there is nothing purer than sorrow.

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

There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.

The artistic life is a long and lovely suicide precisely because it involves the negation of self; as Highsmith imagined herself as her characters, so Ripley takes on the personae of others and in doi...

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality....

A good antidote to the reasons why you worry is never to worry about the reasons why you worry, for the reasons why you worry will always make you worry about the reasons why you worry

Cos every breath is unbearably painful

When I was a kid, I used to watch that show, sitting on the couch in my pajamas and wishing more than anything that one day I'd just change into this other person. I thought that would explain everyth...

You know when you send a text message to someone and you don't get a response right away, you feel depressed? You send a text message to someone you really like and you get a response right away you f...

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded.