Do Not Get Depressed Quotes

#1. Do not get depressed because of your condition; think and act courageously to change your situation.

Debasish Mridha

#2. When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#3. I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

Emma Donoghue

#4. Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of nostalgia.

Tony Horwitz

#5. I'm an athletic person. But I love my body because I know what it's been through to be what it is. And honestly I'm not going to change for someone that is depressed about their life.

Gigi Hadid

#6. Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

Marya Hornbacher

#7. I've had an amazing life. One filled with blessings I could never have imagined.

Depressed is the last thing I am. Realistic, yes. Sad, never.

Viola Shipman

#8. Does he even know that little things he says and does, like that make me really happy or really depressed? It always seems like I'm ruled by him, never the other way around. Does Otani ever feel ruled by the things I say or do?

Aya Nakahara

#9. Life like two broken hands trying to pick flowers for someone you really like.

Sam Pink

#10. When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

Garrison Keillor

#11. Patient reluctant to be with people when depressed because she feels her depression is such an intolerable burden on others;

Kay Redfield Jamison

#12. I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

Pawan Kalyan

#13. You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. Depressed is a word that often describes somebody who is feeling sad and gloomy, but in this case it describes a secret button, hidden in a crow statue, that is feeling just fine, thank you.

Lemony Snicket

#15. Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors.

John Updike

#16. F or a decade after the bursting of the debt bubble in 1837, business conditions were depressed in the United States. The number of banks available for financing speculative adventures declined. Then, after another 10 years, public memory faded again.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#17. When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.

Yoko Ono

#18. There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop me. I've just learned to move it to one side if I want to work.

David St. John

#19. The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.

David Foster Wallace

#20. The thing about depression is that, if you're not the one who's actually suffering from it, there's very little you can do to be proactive. If someone in your family is depressed, all you can really do is send them to the shrink, get them their meds, be gentle, and wait.

Sarah Silverman

#21. I'm depressed when I don't get to do music. Having to go back to doing something I don't like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing.

Kip Moore

#22. I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if I don't train, I get very depressed.

Richard C. Armitage

#23. Do not let anyone discourage you. If they try: get determined, not depressed.

Judy Blume

#24. We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

Jerry Seinfeld

#25. I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark ... '

Rodney Dangerfield

#26. My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.

Jo Brand

#27. I try to fill the emptiness deep inside me with Cheetos, but I am still depressed. Only now my fingers are stained orange. I am blue. And I am orange.

Karen Salmansohn

#28. The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.

David Lynch

#29. Red Carpet Events:Sitting on the couch and watching people who actually chase their goals and dreams; criticizing what they're wearing ... and wondering why we're depressed.

Steve Maraboli

#30. Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes

Eckhart Tolle

#31. I was going through a break up. I was depressed ... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.

Damon Albarn

#32. I don't want to make music alone in a dark studio and make me feel awful and depressed. I want to make music and feel happy and get to share it with people.

Benny Blanco

#33. The local farmers, of course, were bitching because the bean and corn harvests were going to be huge and the prices depressed. Of course, if it hadn't rained, they'd be bitching because their crops were small, even if the prices were high. You couldn't win with farmers.

John Sandford

#34. Instead of becoming depressed that I was in the locked ward of a mental hospital, I pretended I was playing a role in a movie, possibly on my way to an Emmy.

Augusten Burroughs

#35. I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a shoe store, sell real estate, or what? I was really depressed by the whole thing, because I felt like a painter, yet I couldn't make paintings.

Ralph Goings

#36. It explains the great quandary of why the most depressed societies are those with the fewest wants.

Hugh Howey

#37. The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

William Styron

#38. We are as tired of each other's company as we are of the cold monotony of the black night and of the unpalatable sameness of our food. Physically, mentally, and perhaps morally, then, we are depressed, and from my past experience... I know that this depression will increase.

Jenny Offill

#39. Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

Flannery O'Connor

#40. Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

James Nesbitt

#41. We're teenagers," Sylvia said. "we're all depressed.

Kimberly McCreight

#42. Don't get too excited when I am winning, and don't get too depressed when I am losing. Just keep it cool.

Marat Safin

#43. if one were efficient one wouldn't be depressed, and that if one does one's job well one becomes automatically bright and brisk.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#44. A reprisal of this magnitude ... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

Moshe Sharett

#45. Depressed beyond what I'd previously thought possible, I stripped, showered, and slipped on a fresh pair of jeans and a tee shirt and headed for my mom's, trying to figure out why a bank would charge twenty dollars for insufficient funds when they know you don't have it.

Kit Frazier

#46. I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

Amanda Palmer