Clinically Depressed Quotes

#1. As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.

Lena Headey

#2. It is also lonely on a level that cannot be conveyed ... If a person in physical pain has a hard time attending to anything except that pain, a clinically depressed person cannot even perceive any other person or thing as independent of the universal pain that is digesting her cell by cell.

David Foster Wallace

#3. I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

Marianne Faithfull

#4. The effect was of somebody reluctantly reading a prepared statement off a teleprompter, a statement prepared by somebody against whom she had a bitter and long-standing grudge. He considered the possibility that she might be clinically depressed.

Lev Grossman

#5. Like most clinically depressed patients, she appeared to function better in focused activity than in stasis. Their normal paralyzed stasis allowed these patients' own minds to chew them apart. But it was always a titanic struggle to get them to do anything to help them focus.

David Foster Wallace

#6. Telling someone who was clinically depressed, for example, to shake it off and get out of the house was tantamount to telling a man with two broken legs to sprint across the room. That was all well and good in theory, but in practice, the stigma continued.

Harlan Coben

#7. To me it comes naturally, the peaks and valleys, sadness with happiness. I've definitely had periods, maybe, where I haven't been happy. Whether it's from a breakup or the good, old-fashioned blues - but I wouldn't say clinically depressed.

Luke Wilson

#8. I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.

Marianne Williamson

#9. The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.

Damon Lindelof

#10. But I am clinically depressed and have an anxiety disorder, which interferes with things like studying and learning and breathing and living. He thinks it's something I can just turn off and on with willpower.

Leslie Stella

#11. The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!

Peter Schjeldahl

#12. When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.

Terry Bradshaw

#13. I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and I'd rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am.

Neal Stephenson

#14. We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.

Debbie Ford

#15. Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it.

Roman Jakobson

#16. I have Netflix, but I don't watch television.

Jeffrey DeMunn

#17. There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Joseph Addison

#18. Your apologies hang heavy like the skeleton of the man I once thought I'd marry. I loved you more than I knew what to do with most days. But I do not know you now. And this stranger you've become makes my stomach hurt.

Ari Eastman

#19. Nut cases only succeed in multiple killings when
they can be confident their prospective victims are disarmed.

Vin Suprynowicz

#20. The mind is just another muscle.

Ted Turner

#21. She said, 'He knows what I mean. Where did you get those shoes?' He said, 'They're training shoes.' She said, 'Training for what? Are you not fully qualified?' He said, 'If Jesus were alive today, Mrs Whittaker, I think you'd find these were the type of shoes he would be wearing.

Alan Bennett

#22. The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

Franz Grillparzer

#23. The easiest story to sell is the story we want to buy.

Scott Van Pelt

#24. In reality, nobody gets successful in America by being lazy.

Bruno Tonioli