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My vocal chords fought to contain the memories that leaked out; I felt the weight off it all pressing down on me. — Jake Wood

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness. — Adam Ant

My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression. — Bea Arthur

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such. — Alain De Botton

We had a threesome
You, me and my depression
Depression fucks hard — Benedict Smith

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real. — Henri Nouwen

Something was not dead within me, in the depths of my heart and conscience it would not die, and it showed itself in acute depression. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2. — Ned Beatty

I had been too tired and too sick with melancholy to ride my bike, knowing full well that riding my bike was a cure. — Kelton Wright

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often - and in my inmost self perhaps all the time - I doubt whether I am a human being. — Franz Kafka

They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me - Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression. — Clara Hughes

I think I've lost my faith
and I can't stop writing
because I don't know how
much longer I can hold on. — Emma Forrest

If you could read my mind, you wouldn't be smiling. — Tamara Ireland Stone

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

There's no saving him from his deep hole. There's no saving me from my black slug. — Jasmine Warga

Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine. — Bill W.

The first time I saw her,
Everything in my head went quiet. — Neil Hilborn

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal. — Byron Katie

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. — Robbie Williams

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

My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. — Mary Shelley

If two people who love each other Ares soul mates, then there will always be a empty hole in my soul waiting for you.. — Trevor Lease

It's hard to accept that depression is an illness, that moping around from day to day with no will for so many years is not my fault. — Francisco X Stork

I never like to see someone hurting, but I admit whenever I heard someone play the depression card, I'd roll my eyes and go about my business. — J.A. Redmerski

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of. — Stephen Baldwin

The end for us came with a knock on my window. — Liz Thebart

I couldn't trust my own mind anymore, which was
the scariest thing I've ever experienced. — Felicia Day

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness. — Adolf Hitler

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films. — Woody Allen

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it. — Jimi Hendrix

Out of everything the depression stole from me ... I miss my books the most. — Frank Warren

I bet if you cut open my stomach, the black slug of depression would slide out. — Jasmine Warga

Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested. — Calista Flockhart

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life. — Graham Moore

You are my finest knight — Carolyn Parkhurst

I've never had a single moment of depression, because I know my cause will triumph. — Nelson Mandela

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. — Jeanette Winterson

My depression at the end of Wham! was because I was beginning to realise I was gay, not bi. — George Michael

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine. — Emma Forrest

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

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered. — Elizabeth Berg

My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it's there but I never feel like digging it out. — Casey Renee Kiser

It's my opinion that only in times of utter depression or lofty peace is it appropriate to be creative. — Nicholas Trandahl

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression ... — John Geddes

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression. — Carrie Fisher

I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else. — Robin Hobb

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. — Laurie Halse Anderson

I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life. — Clive Culverhouse

Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in. — Jasmine Warga

My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits. — Nell Casey

Getting better from depression demands a lifelong commitment. I've made that commitment for my life's sake and for the sake of those who love me. — Susan Polis Schutz

The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. — Sylvia Plath

And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to toll. — Emily Dickinson

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead — Elizabeth Wurtzel

The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself. — Emanuel Celler

I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people out. — Virginia Heffernan

Just as it was necessary to reinflate my lungs to overcome pneumonia, I needed the breath of God to help me overcome the depression of my spirit.
I — Don Piper

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work. — Clint Eastwood

Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life. — Ricky Hatton

I've dealt with depression my entire life, on and off, which makes me the perfect author for teenage readers. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Sometimes i don't have enough soul in my cheeks to show my face to the world. — Curtis Tyrone Jones

It's a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn't want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do. — Ned Vizzini

I have to keep reminding myself
this is not me. It is chemistry. It is biology. It is not who I am. — David Levithan

Nothing is permanent in my mysterious world, even my moments of belief - Jenifer — Durgesh Satpathy

To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people. — Heber J. Grant

I wanted to get out of my depression more than anything, but focusing on myself was the — Kristen Jane Anderson

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

The next day I woke up in a sullen simmer, as if sleep had catalyzed my depression into a general state of pissed-offedness. — Lisa Kleypas

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use. — Sylvia Plath

Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn't make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can't be fixed. — Ken Wheaton

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. — Nathaniel Branden

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety ... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff. — Art Alexakis

A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters

For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork — Elaine Stritch

A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet. — Dennis L. McKiernan

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

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse. — Robbie Williams

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, 'You saved my dad's life.' — Dick Cavett

You have a history of starving yourself," he says gently.
I lift my head. I meet his gaze. "I have a history that I don't like to talk about. — Stephanie Kuehn

Words drop from my lips spiraling downward; they land scattered on your ears. I spoke them green and golden, but you turned them shriveled brown. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within. — Shannon Perry

Even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery. — Joseph O'Neill

I want to re-start my life, — Pavankumar Nagaraj

I forced my eyes open and saw the image that's haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day, in my nightmares. — Liz Thebart

Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same. — Alison Espach

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression! — Elizabeth Wurtzel

One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely. — Matt Haig

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. — Larry Elder

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much. — Nina LaCour

When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness? — Michaela Haze

It is in my head! That's why it's called Mental Illness. — Roni Askey-Doran

My pillow is as good as any ocean
to drown in the nightmare of myself.
I swam all the way here from the moon. — Casey Renee Kiser

Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings. — Carrie Fisher

I suffered my own battles. I suffer still. — Carla H. Krueger

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. — Zora Neale Hurston

The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control. — Danielle Rohr