Best depression & sometimes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

Thinking Love Writing Humans Sometimes Form Fear Situation Wonder Depression Madness Paint Manage Therapy Panic Inherent Sometimes I Wonder

Author:Graham Greene

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

“I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.”

Knows Giving Sometimes Dream Courses Literature Know How Mankind Birth Despair Depression Crisis Deeper Immortality Enjoyment Relative Plunge

Book:Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

“I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free.”

Stills Sometimes Facts Powerful Depression Illness Mental Illness Get Better Undertow

Author:Tracy Thompson

“I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.”

People Ifs Feels Looks Sometimes Wonder Laughing Crazy Depression Mental Health Illness Mental Illness Notches

Author:Martha Manning

“Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.”

People Thinking World Said Real Sometimes Faces Literature Left Please Depression Obligation Protest Comes And Goes Alright

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.”

“Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.”

Feels Sometimes States Nations United United States Depression Prozac Prozac Nation

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“The old grey donkey, Eeyore stood by himself in a thistly corner of the Forest, his front feet well apart, his head on one side, and thought about things. Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "Inasmuch as which?" and sometimes he didn't quite know what he was thinking about.”

Thinking Knows Wells Sometimes Sides Feet Fronts Depression Corners Forests Grey Donkey

Book:Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.”

Ifs May Sometimes Sadness Periods Sad Demand Depression Endure Illumination

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.”

Sometimes Impossible Depression Scales Psychological Giants Knocking Lunatic Banter Banality Battering

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was disintegrating. Nothing stood the test of time, including me. Somewhere on the other shore were madness and God, sometimes both wearing a beard. Neither instilled much confidence.”

“Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.”

Feels Mind Two Self Sometimes Difficult Focus Depression Ethics Roots Breaths Crisis Illness Bones Mental Illness Phenomenon Overwhelming Counting Preventing Psychiatric

Author:Lauren Slater

“Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Sometimes Enough Loses Depression Down And Illness Expected Mental Illness Noise Sanity Shut Up Noisy Imposition

Book:DAYBREAK

Source: DAYBREAK

“A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.”

Men Sometimes Hands Young Speak Depression Mouths Illness Mental Illness Young Man Demon

Book:Selected Poetry

Source: Selected Poetry

“With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.”

Knows Stills Sometimes Reason Tears Depression Mental Illness No Reason Bursting Bursting Into Tears

Author:Keisha Buchanan

“I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept in from outside. It happened so quickly and took me by surprise; sometimes I just turned around and found it there-ah, camarade-unaware it had been waiting for me for days.”

Feels Sometimes Found Waiting Loses Darkness Happened Balance Depression Surprise Illness Deeper Mental Illness Slides

Book:All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo

Source: All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo

“May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.”

Feels Writing May Sometimes Helping Wonderful Sadness Sad Depression Misery Suggestions Impertinence

Book:For Your Eye Alone

Source: For Your Eye Alone

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