Quotes about Depression

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Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I sha — Virginia Woolf
You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be. — Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don — Charles Bukowski
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrib — Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for — Ashly Lorenzana
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depr — Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Life is like a game of chess.To win you have to make a move.Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, — Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I loved it because I thoug — Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean — Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fr — Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response t — Stephen Fry
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? — John Keats, Letters of John Keats
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you — Elizabeth Gilbert
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. — Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. — Jo Nesbø
Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, — Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make — Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the gratefu — Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free