Depression Quotes - Page 2

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words will always kill me.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

What is society but an individual? [...] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

There are times that the emotions we keep in our hearts, no matter how abundant, are better left unexpressed.

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

The core of your
true self
is never lost.
Let go of all the
pretending and
the becoming
you've done just
to belong.
Curl up with your
rawness and come home.
You don't have to
find yourself;
you just have to
let yourself in.

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.

I don't know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best, crediting depression with more clarity than euphoria. We dismiss peak moments and passionate love affairs as an ephemeral chemical buzz, just endorphins or hormones, but accept those 3 a.m. bouts of despair as unsentimental insights into the truth about our lives.

I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.

For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work after dinner. I remember feeling as if life were a protracted exercise in pulling myself out of a well by a rope, and that rope was work.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

'Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit.

I'm not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.

Pain, sorrow, anger, these are all powerful emotions. Allowed to rule and left unchecked, they would destroy you. However, through training and willpower you can choose to harness those feelings and use them for something great.