Depression Quotes

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
Paul Fussell

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
DOROTHY ROWE

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts
Penelope Sweet

If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling.
Dr. R. W. Shepherd

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Grenville Kleiser

Depression is rage spread thin.

...Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling...People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
Judith Guest

Depression is the inability to construct a future

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.
Geoffrey Norman

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Depression is inertia.
Dr. Wayne Dyer

The best insurance policy for tomorrow is to make the most productive use of today. A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.
Geoffrey Norman

The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.

A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work.
Geoffrey Norman

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.
Tom Bosley

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.
Tom Bosley

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis

For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.

The one who keeps the stars in their place can keep us in our place. There is no depression for good deeds, and that is all that business consists of, and that is our real business.
Henry N. Kost

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt. That is why they are great. That is why you will find modesty and humility the characteristics of such men.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth,?and then we are angry at being undervalued.
Julia Margaret Cameron







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