Darkness Of Depression Quotes

#1. Darkness, whether in mood or in night, is natural. So if we flow with the black bile of melancholia and endure the terrible darkness of depression, eventually we will break through into the light of joy. This is the Tao (the Way) of darkness or depression
this is the Mystery of its evolution.

Arnold Mindell

#2. Nestled in the valley of darkness, in the deepest depths of depression, are the priceless gems of; creativity, intuition and sensitivity. The trick is learning how to navigate the dark, so these precious gems can be unearthed and their beauty beheld.

Jaeda DeWalt

#3. Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

John Piper

#4. Depression was, indeed, the hand of a friend trying to press me down to ground on which it was safe to stand - the ground of my own truth, my own nature, with its complex mix of limits and gifts, liabilities and assets, darkness and light.

Parker J. Palmer

#5. When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.

Indu Muralidharan

#6. There comes a time when something changes you ... No matter the impact ... Where the world no longer beats in time with you. You no longer feel amongst the fray.. And the feeling of loneliness is a brandished armor you wear the rest of your life.

Solange Nicole

#7. Perhaps, when it got utterly dark, the peace of the darkness would become the same as light so that my last experience would become as mysterious and musical as my first, so that in my last darkness there might not be the same need of understanding anything so far away as the world anymore.

Derek Raymond

#8. Do you realize that after eminent success in God's work, there is more need for prayer than when we are at the foothills of a struggle for survival? The moments of victory and success are more dangerous than moments of darkness and depression.

Oswald Chambers

#9. There is a season for everything under the sun - even when we can't see the sun.

Jared Brock

#10. Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable.

Mindy Greenstein

#11. In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

Dean Koontz

#12. The price for being intelligent enough to be the first species to be fully aware of the cosmos might just be a capacity to feel a whole universe's worth of darkness.

Matt Haig

#13. In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present.

Michael Poeltl

#14. In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and remind us to go all in, because life is short. The joy edges the pain and gives us a reason to rise.

Anna White

#15. Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

John Piper

#16. It's difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn't enough. My therapist hears confession twice a month, my shrink delivers the host, and I can stand in the woods and see the world spark.

David Lovelace

#17. Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

Victor Hugo

#18. If killing yourself is not an option anymore,
you have to sink into the darkness instead,
and make something out of it.

Emma Forrest

#19. The locals died and shrivelled with the autumnal leaves as their plastic, seasonal smiles faded with the last of the holidaymakers.

Moonshine Noire

#20. The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.

Fennel Hudson

#21. It would still be a long way until she was completely free, but the door had been cracked open and a smidgen of hope broke through the darkness.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#22. Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.

Joan D. Chittister

#23. Sometimes darkness
is the beauty I am made of -

Kelli Russell Agodon

#24. We dig holes for ourselves, of comfortable living, and it's hard to see just how deep down you are until you suddenly want to take a look at the world up there, some fresh air
and realise you can't get up. You're too far down.

Charlotte Eriksson

#25. I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.

Rachel Bloom

#26. It's like I have this large black hole in my brain and it's sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness.

Katie McGarry

#27. In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.

Tom Brokaw

#29. Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.

Jasmine Warga

#30. Sometimes bliss can only be found in the serenity of darkness.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#31. No amount of speed could break me of this darkness... The sorrow is ever clinging to me.

D.R. Hedge

#32. I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.
I don't want it to win.

Jasmine Warga

#33. The most amazing thing is that all my sorrows, all of my darkest moments, are becoming my gifts.

Anna White

#34. At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.

Osamu Dazai

#35. In those moments, none of it matters. It's like that stuff is happening to someone else because all you feel is dark inside, and that darkness just kind of takes over. You don't even really think about what might happen to the people you leave behind, because all you can think about is yourself.

Jennifer Niven

#36. Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

Andrew Pyper

#37. Love me
get lost in me
but beware
side effects include
a lot of shivering, baby
a lot of drinking, maybe
a lot of sinking, baby

Casey Renee Kiser