D Quotes
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“Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it and hear their reactions, you realize that it is such a prevalent part of life and our society today that it really needed to be told, and still needs to be told.”
“Depression is state of deep anxiety.”
“Depression is state of deep anxiety. It is better to pray about everything than worry about nothing.”
“Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just the slow erosion of the self, as insidious as any cancer. And, like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience. A room in hell with only your name on the door.”
“Depression is the aftermath of credit expansion.”
Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses
“Depression is the feeling that everything
is a waste of time.
Joy is KNOWING that nothing in this Life is a waste.”
“Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.”
“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.”
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression
“Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become so fully absorbed in the world of creative work that it can lead to some imbalance in your life.”
“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
“Depression is the inability to construct future.”
“Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.”
“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”
“Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.”
“Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth.”
“Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.”
“Depression, is usually the result of accepting suppression. Resulting from attempts to keep the peace in a relationship or subverting the truth.”
“Depression is usually the result of focusing on a negative thought or situation way more often and for way longer than usual.”
“Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.”
“Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.”
“Depression is what naturally occurs when the conditions of reality do not match our misguided expectations, when the fruition of what we think ought to characterize existence fails to manifest. It’s the ensuing dissonance we feel when what we believe should be falls short of what is.”
Source: Elsewhere and Otherwise: Essays
“Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.”
“Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.”
“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 fray after another.”
Source: We Are the Ants
“Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.”
“Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.”
“Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in other ways. I can create with them in my writing and my life, mix them up with excitement and pleasure. I can name that terrible, numbing paralysis and know it will pass.”
“Depression kills faster than cyanide.”
Source: Stamerenophobia
“Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.”
“Depression lets me be sad at my own pace.”
“Depression makes me hate the world, but it gives me a million things to think.”
“Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.”
“Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.”
“Depression may seem completely useless. Even apart from the risk of suicide, sitting all day morosely staring at the wall can't get you very far. A person with severe depression typically loses interest in everything -work, friends, food, even sex. It is as if the capacities for pleasure and initiative have been turned off. Some people cry spontaneously, but others are beyond tears. Some wake every morning at 4 A.M. and can't get back to sleep; others sleep for twelve or fourteen hours per day. Some have delusions that they are impoverished, stupid, ugly, or dying of cancer. Almost all have low self-esteem. It seems preposterous even to consider that there should be anything adaptive associated with such symptoms. And yet depression is so frequent, and so closely related to ordinary sadness, that we must begin by asking if depression arises from a basic abnormality or if it is a dysregulation of a normal capacity.”
Source: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“Depression means that you have no point of view.”
“Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.”
“Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.”
Source: Cool memories
“Depression must be avoided, no matter what the cost. Depression is lying on the Edwardian couch for six months, too tired to unlace your shoes. Depression is awakening each morning feeling as if someone near and dear and closely related died the night before. Bad news. Don't tempt depression.”
Source: Social Blunders: A Novel
“Depression occurs when you are not being yourself.”
Source: Are you happy?: some answers to the most important question in your life
“Depression occurs when you are not being yourself. You're probably doing things you don't want to do.”
“Depression often transforms the will to live into the will to leave (the world).”
“Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.”
“Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.”
Source: How to Be Alone: Essays
“Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.”
Source: How to Be Alone: Essays
“Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.”
“Depression’s defining symptom is anhedonia, the inability to feel, anticipate, or pursue pleasure. Chronic stress depletes the mesolimbic system of dopamine, generating anhedonia. The link between childhood adversity and adult depression involves both organizational effects on the developing mesolimbic system and elevated adult glucocorticoid levels, which can deplete dopamine.”
Source: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
“Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.”
“Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.”
“Depression set in. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, I couldn't concentrate at work. I didn't want to get out of bed.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease