Depression Poem Quotes

#1. The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.


I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.

Nikita Gill

#2. If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.

Douglas Brinkley

#3. I don't care if you think I'm a Saint or a fool or the Darkling's whore. If you want to remain at the Little Palace you will follow me. And if you don't like it, you will be gone by tonight, or I will have you in chains. I am a solider. I am the Sun Summoners. And I'm the only chance you have.

Leigh Bardugo

#4. Do what you feel is right and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live.

Jack Barakat

#5. I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

Warren Buffett

#6. One of the best safeguards of our hopes, I have suggested, is to be able to mark off the areas of hopelessness and to acknowledge them, to face them directly, not with despair but with the creative intent of keeping them from polluting all the areas of possibility.

William F. Lynch

#7. The red washing
down the bathtub
can't change the color of the sea
at all.

Derrick Brown

#8. You cannot be who you were.

D.J. Molles

#9. The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed

Wendell Berry

#10. I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.

Chaz Bono

#11. I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Jonah Goldberg

#12. They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962

Sylvia Plath

#13. History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Thucydides

#14. Abram - Ibrahim, in the Arabic spelling - was the first to worship Allah, the one God, rather than the stars, the moon, or the sun.

Susan Wise Bauer

#15. It took me a long time to grow up.

Robin Wright