Top 66 Happy Depression Quotes
#1. I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative.
Tim Burton
#2. My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.
Gregory Hines
#3. It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#4. I get happy and I get sad,
just like anybody else
but they call this a disorder.
Casey Renee Kiser
#5. Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary we've had since the Great Depression.
Charles Duhigg
#6. In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.
Lilly Singh
#7. I don't really know what depression is, I don't think I've felt it. I probably have. Things aren't the same when you're losing. You're not happy. That can happen. But I try to keep them separate as much as possible.
Chris Bosh
#10. I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on.
Lilly Singh
#11. Be happy
if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
Tom Stoppard
#12. The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.
Pete Wentz
#13. Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
Fannie Flagg
#14. If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?
Christopher Bram
#15. The key to happiness is being happy with who you are and enjoying the life you are living.
Robert Moment
#16. She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. He never said anything. She was afraid then, she was one needing charming stories and happy telling of them and not having that thing she was always trembling.
Gertrude Stein
#17. I was battling depression, went through a really hard time in my marriage, and I used to cry myself to sleep. I went through years and years of pain and suffering, and finally got help. I feel so much better now, feel like a new person, so now I can be happy about it.
Maureen McCormick
#18. Through the eyes of a happy girl lies guilt and destruction.
Britany Lopez
#19. I wanted to tell her happy was hard for me. But I think she already knew that.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#20. I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
Richard Marx
#21. I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.
Charlotte Eriksson
#22. Endings are like, I always say, like a women's pregnancy. When she has a child, she is happy to have the child, but there is a thing called postpartum depression, that is that she is no longer carrying the baby.
Peter Eisenman
#23. I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.
Rube Goldberg
#24. Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.
Charles Spurgeon
#25. One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Aristotle.
#26. Most people who think they're happy are really just stupid.
Tom Kitt
#27. When depression takes root, it is not because you prefer to be sad, it just becomes easier to be sad than happy.
Anton Kimfors
#28. There is a difference between depression and sadness. I am happy to be sad.
Amanda Mosher
#29. I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy
Gene Wolfe
#30. Every time I get happy
the Nana-hex comes through.
Birds turn into plumber's tools,
a sonnet turns into a dirty joke,
a wind turns into a tracheotomy,
a boat turns into a corpse ...
Anne Sexton
#31. I might look successful and happy being in front of you today, but I once suffered from severe depression and was in total despair.
Ji-Hae Park
#32. 'Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit.
Dorothy Rowe
#33. See, there's the pie chart. If you look, you can see clear as day that the happy times -- the times when you think "How fun! I'm glad I'm alive" -- don't make up even one tenth of life. I'm work this out properly with a calculator, so there's no mistake.
Tatsuhiko Takimoto
#34. The worst thing about depression is how true your vision seems, like misery is the only correct perspective and everything you think when you're happy is a sham. I didn't even want to be happy anymore because I'd rather live in honest misery than fake bliss. I
Michelle Tea
#35. Our own statistics about violence, depression, drug abuse, divorce, and crime indicated that although ours was one of the wealthiest societies in history, it may also be one of the least happy societies. Why would we want others to emulate us?
John Perkins
#36. I yearn to make these scars disappear
And to forget about the past.
To throw away all of my fears
And to be happy at last.
Atarah L. Poling
#37. The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful
Gwyneth Lewis
#38. Desdemona, mourning her parents, was still imprisoned by the past. And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and felt cheated by her ability to feel happy by everybody else.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#39. Sometimes people think if someone has depression, that person must be a broken Mormon. We believe that righteousness is happiness, but what happens when people are righteous and they're not happy?
Hank Smith
#40. Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.
Marc Maron
#41. If you have a little sensibility or a heart, you have all the reason to be depressed once in a while. But the depression is like a motor for creation. I need a little bit of depression, a bit of acid in my stomach, to be able to create. When I'm happy, I just want to dance.
Marjane Satrapi
#42. Sometimes I feel like all the crap in the world is building up inside me, like all the bad is just filling me like a balloon. I push it all back, live my happy life.
But sometimes that balloon exposed and all the crap lands on everything around me.
Keary Taylor
#43. Why not risk your life, if you don't want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you'll never be happy no matter what you do?
Cassandra Clare
#44. Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be.
Rebecca McNutt
#45. Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.
Northern Adams
#46. I may have looked happy but inside I was hopelessly depressed.
Stephen Fry
#47. Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.
Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.
Patrick Marber
#48. Gratitude is the antidote for misery. When you are counting your blessings you are too busy to be counting your problems.
Miya Yamanouchi
#49. December is the most difficult month. Medications for insomnia or depression go up during the month of December. A lot of people who experience loss feel that loss magnified in December. Everybody seems happy and you feel all alone. You're not all alone.
Max Lucado
#50. My mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw
Charles Bukowski
#51. Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.
Tom Bosley
#52. ( ... ) Since I was a kid."
"Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'"
"Right.
Ned Vizzini
#53. She was supposed to be happy ... why couldn't she just be happy for a few moments? Why couldn't she just forget everything bad going on her life, and just be happy?
Courtney Carola
#54. For many people, depression is an abrupt change in an otherwise full and happy life. It emerges suddenly and devastates by its very strangeness and pathology.
Nell Casey
#55. Guidance counselors always love to say, 'Just think positively,' but that's impossible when you have this thing inside of you, strangling every ounce of happiness you can muster. My body is an efficient happy-though-killing machine.
Jasmine Warga
#56. A good antidote to the reasons why you worry is never to worry about the reasons why you worry, for the reasons why you worry will always make you worry about the reasons why you worry
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#57. They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.
Gillian Flynn
#59. Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.
Amit Ray
#60. She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface
Diane Chamberlain
#61. I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'
Robert Fisk
#62. See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.
Paulo Coelho
#63. Between the new, happy him, and the old, depressing him, there stood in the way only his lack of imagination.
Vann Chow
#64. Do you believe in other universes? Do you think there's another dimension where we're happy?
Jasmine Warga
#65. I don't agree with this romantic fantasy that people who suffer from depression are more likely to be artists. I find that I am more creative when I am happy actually.
Sinead O'Connor
#66. Everything is fine, nobody is happy...
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