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Depression is a prison to which you have the key except you never think to look for it. — Kevin Hearne

An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us. — Matt Haig

In the Age of Aquarius, the depression and stress on mankind will tear up people who do not have the technical knowledge of self. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

When we are aware about our body's sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress through slow movements. — Amit Ray

Depression weakens a person at every level and bullies can smell weakness like dogs smell fear. — Indu Muralidharan

Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip. — Kris Kidd

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression. — Jesse Jackson

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still. — Helen Macdonald

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. — Buzz Aldrin

The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it — Jeremy Griffith

Never underplay a child's sadness.

Travis, Dr. Richard L. (2013-12-22). Overcoming Depression in Teens and Pre-Teens, p. 67 — Dr. Richard Travis

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity. — Aleksandar Hemon

I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE. — Nick Bantock

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself. — Sinead O'Connor

He didn't like having to start the fire again, that was the source of this small sadness. You get tired of these endless beginnings. — Denis Johnson

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland. — Philip Larkin

Love, anger, depression, joy and dreams ... And Zeppelin. Totally. — Jeff Buckley

Hiding and waiting
For the worst
Or the end — Kim Holden

Dealing with depression isn't about trying to run away from the feeling; it's about learning to walk alongside it. — Hannah Hart

Why would I want to take baby steps? Babies are shit at walking - think about it. To move forward I'll be taking jazzy little lizard steps. — Ruby Elliot

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency. — Conor Oberst

It's what we do, we continue on. Yet, what is the point?
There is nothing ahead of us when there is nothing left of us. — D.R. Hedge

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. — Alan Lightman

In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl. — Pete Townshend

COPE

Create Options Pending Emergence — Kamil Ali

Be happy
if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving? — Tom Stoppard

After a while, it all started to fade. No more pain, no more unwanted thoughts and no sound. Just darkness. I welcomed it. I was done. — Ani San

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history. — Harry S. Dent

Comedy strikes here... just to reduce pressure and depression. — Deyth Banger

Can't you do just a little bit more?
pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries) — J.G. Morrison

Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone. — Anthony Marais

I hope you see what you've done to me. — Matthew Little

I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat. — Kevin Keegan

depression is a deep sadness that does not go away. — Jim Fields

In your winter you deny your spring, — Kahlil Gibran

The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful — Gwyneth Lewis

Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth. — Emma Donoghue

and dangerous depths of the labyrinth that was her depression. It had prevented her from slipping — Gilly Macmillan

He looked like some plant bleached by darkness. — Honore De Balzac

Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand. — Sophie Kinsella

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'm a lot like you,
and you're a lot like me.
It's sad to say,
and it's sad to see. — Kris Kidd

I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died? — Melinda Gates

It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I don't know why I feel so crazy ... I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha. — Dawn French

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love. — Helen Fisher

Work, Mrs. Hill knew, might not be a cure for all ailments, but it was a sovereign remedy against the more brooding kinds. — Jo Baker

I remain someone of little consequence, as if nothing more than dandelion fluff caught on a breeze. — Kelly Moran

I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what. — Jenny Han

One of the greatest keys to happiness is realizing it has no doors. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

failure equals rethink; success equals vigilance — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration. — Austin Butler

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury. — Jesse Eisenberg

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication. — Donna Summer

Ten cures for depression are to go out and do something for someone else and repeat it nine times. — Martin Luther King Jr.

After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart. — Andy Andrews

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. — Jim Carrey

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression. — Kirstie Alley

The difference between depression and happiness is having a purpose. — Clinton McCoy

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it. — Veronica Roth

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now. — Michael Poeltl

You've always been nuts. That's fine. I can deal with nuts. But lately, you've been depressed nuts. I can't deal with that.
- Anthony — Jennifer Crusie

Fear, greed and hope have destroyed more portfolio value than any recession or depression we have ever been through. — James O'Shaughnessy

Everyone else has a work party,'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad. — Sally Brampton

In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin. — Terri Blackstock

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement — Herbert Hoover

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression. — Eric Maisel

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst. — Ray Brown

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money. — Walter Annenberg

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression. — Ben Bernanke

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. — Kilroy J. Oldster

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade ... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event. — Nathaniel Branden

Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe; it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse. — Allen Ginsberg

Sometimes I think depression must be like a dance in your head and anything can trigger it, if you know that dance. — Rachel Joyce

Fifth, you learn to recognize and question the depression-sowing assumptions governing so much of what you do: — Martin E.P. Seligman

Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind. — Debasish Mridha

In America, 13.5 million days of work are lost per year due to work related depression, stress and anxiety. — Jack Canfield

From my chair i can see the street and it seems depressing — Brandon Scott Gorrell

Depression was, in some ways, a crisis of energy. I had heard her say that before; we were in reruns. — Wally Lamb

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression. — Philip K. Dick

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high. — Molly Ringwald

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors. — Miriam Toews

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence. — Herbert Hoover

Perhaps the greatest neutralizer of sadness rests with two simple words : thank you. — Charles F. Glassman

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives. — Angela Carter

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy. — Julia Cameron

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous. — Wilhelm Stekel

I still get awful depression. It's who I am. — Marian Keyes

nothing is worse than the false hope someone gives you in your depression — Kim Walters

Minds have their own weather systems. You are in a hurricane. Hurricanes run out of energy eventually. Hold on. — Matt Haig

... she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before. — Jane Austen

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks. — John Kenneth Galbraith

How is it that we have over 6 billion people in the world and half of them feel alone? — Nikki Rowe

An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read! — Maggie Reese

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate. — Cassandra Clare

I'm heavily medicated yet happily manic, I've been stuck on hypo mania for years. — Stanley Victor Paskavich