Best Feeling Depressed Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's like being numb most of the time,” she tried to explain, tried to calm herself down by putting words to feelings. “Everything feels gray, but when I do feel something, it's like I feel it more than most people and it hurts—it hurts me, personally, like the pain was made for me in mind. And suddenly—numb doesn't feel so bad.”

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Book:Through a Glass, Darkly

Source: Through a Glass, Darkly

“If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright.”

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Author:John Lennon

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

“If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.”

“When I'm feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I'm feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I'll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I'll turn around and do it again.”

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Author:Janet Jackson

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)

“I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.”

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Author:Dar Williams

“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”

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Author:Rollo May

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.”

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.”

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Author:Jo Brand

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”

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Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.”

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Author:Steven Wright

“Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.”

“Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks. I remember the line from that poem now. Downward to darkness, on extended wings.”

“Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

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Book:The Bean Trees: A Novel

Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

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Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

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Book:The Bean Trees: A Novel

Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”

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Author:Ned Vizzini

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.”

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Book:Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One

Source: Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.”

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Author:Ned Vizzini

“When I am feeling depressed and anxious sullen all you have to do is take your clothes off and all is wiped away revealing life tenderness that we are flesh and breathe and are near us as you are really as you are I become as I really am alive and knowing vaguely what is and what is important to me above the intrusions of incident and accidental relationships which have nothing to do with my life”

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Author:Frank O'Hara

“I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.”

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Author:Sara Blakely

“Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.”

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Book:Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

Source: Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

“There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.”

“Any kind of self-concern, including a self-concern that leads one to shut down and give up (as, for example, a fear to fail) is itself a kind of pride. Feeling depressed that I am worse than others is as much an act of pride as feeling myself better. Both are acts of self-concern.”

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Author:James E. Ferrell

“I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.”

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Author:Jack Dee

“A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!”

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Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”

“Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.”

Source: NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND AND THE GRAND INQUISITOR

“You need self-confidence and determination: feeling depressed and losing hope will never really help to correct any situation.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”

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Author:Fiona Apple

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