Top 100 Mental Depression Quotes

#1. In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.

Ezra Taft Benson

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#2. The mind does not regulate its own condition. Mental depression, for example, is a state caused by the body ... William James described this relationship when he said we become sad because we shed tears: we do not shed tears because we are sad.

Jack Henry Abbott

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#3. You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.

Phil Gramm

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#4. 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

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#5. I am growing to hate the vague declarations of psychiatric treatment, the airy cross-your-fingers pronouncements. The treatment of mental health is an inexact science. But, as I am slowly coming to understand, depression is an inexact illness.

Sally Brampton

Mental Depression Quotes #63793
#6. The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process.

S. Nassir Ghaemi

Mental Depression Quotes #86707
#7. Depression is real. It happens. We go through it. Hold onto yourself in those moments.

Avijeet Das

Mental Depression Quotes #124313
#8. The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that.

Matthew Quick

Mental Depression Quotes #125512
#9. Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn't make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can't be fixed.

Ken Wheaton

Mental Depression Quotes #147206
#10. Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.

Neel Burton

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#11. After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Osamu Dazai

Mental Depression Quotes #206594
#12. My pillow is as good as any ocean
to drown in the nightmare of myself.
I swam all the way here from the moon.

Casey Renee Kiser

Mental Depression Quotes #213335
#13. Defeating depression is like playing the carnival game Whac-a-mole. You have to give it your all and be on target to beat that sucker down when it pops up again and again. If you pay attention, learn from your past efforts, and keep at it, you can win." -Mel. Edwards

Mel Edwards

Mental Depression Quotes #223955
#14. Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention

Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Mental Depression Quotes #240381
#15. It's great to be young and insane.

Michael Keaton

Mental Depression Quotes #241773
#16. The first time I saw her,
Everything in my head went quiet.

Neil Hilborn

Mental Depression Quotes #248190
#17. Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you
don't because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn't look like drowning and some
people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

Ilsa J. Bick

Mental Depression Quotes #273693
#18. Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

Neel Burton

Mental Depression Quotes #286441
#19. Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.

Carrie Fisher

Mental Depression Quotes #303983
#20. I'm Bipolar with PTSD there's no shortage of pain inside of me

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Mental Depression Quotes #317607
#21. I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.

Hugo Wolf

Mental Depression Quotes #324389
#22. He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Mental Depression Quotes #331172
#23. Uncommon anxiety came to us in common hours when other people were doing mundane things like taking out the trash or checking their phones. But there was nothing to be done for this. We couldn't change who we were or what had happened.

Laura Anderson Kurk

Mental Depression Quotes #383182
#24. I used mental illness as a springboard to rest of my life.

Clive Culverhouse

Mental Depression Quotes #404196
#25. I will find a way out or make one.

Robert Peary

Mental Depression Quotes #435909
#26. She had not been herself for weeks, yet no one noticed. She knew this feeling, it creeps up like sliding slowly into the darkness. Some days she clung on, other days she let herself slip further.

Tina J. Richardson

Mental Depression Quotes #437038
#27. It is possible for even the most deeply disturbed and desperately unbalanced among us to be a beautiful person.

George Howe Colt

Mental Depression Quotes #447392
#28. Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.

Jasmine Warga

Mental Depression Quotes #458501
#29. I wanted to be dead. No. That's not quite right. I didn't want to be dead, I just didn't want to be alive.

Matt Haig

Mental Depression Quotes #483882
#30. Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

Osamu Dazai

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#31. Rest and a complete change," said George. "The overstrain upon our brains has produced a general depression throughout the system. Change of scene, and absence of the necessity for thought, will restore the mental equilibrium.

Jerome K. Jerome

Mental Depression Quotes #559452
#32. And this was something I would always wonder about - how the lines were drawn to define mental illness. When did a little depression become pathological? When did anxiety turn into something bigger, something greater and more cautionary about your own stability?

Kate Axelrod

Mental Depression Quotes #579684
#33. Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals.

David Duke

Mental Depression Quotes #595364
#34. Some of the most effective segments are interviews with various staff members, including Aila, who works for the center's legal department. She explains the difficulties of rape prosecution, concluding that "only the survivor" can truly define justice. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

Mental Depression Quotes #601171
#35. I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

Ned Vizzini

Mental Depression Quotes #603922
#36. Breathe. Relax. This too shall pass.

Lee Horbachewski

Mental Depression Quotes #616491
#37. There's nothing worse than bottling something up inside and letting it eat at you. It's like being shot, and leaving the bullet inside our bodies. The wound would never heal. Instead, we need to let it out.

S.R. Crawford

Mental Depression Quotes #625937
#38. I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Mental Depression Quotes #626391
#39. My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.

Shannon Perry

Mental Depression Quotes #678845
#40. It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Mental Depression Quotes #698342
#41. Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

Tom Sturridge

Mental Depression Quotes #721309
#42. Maybe I'm a bit of a psycho-but I'd rather be psycho than boring.

Julie Delpy

Mental Depression Quotes #740764
#43. It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.

Gail Porter

Mental Depression Quotes #773341
#44. This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.

Norah Vincent

Mental Depression Quotes #836955
#45. Bipolar illness, manic depression, manic-depressive illness, manic-depressive psychosis. That's a nice way of saying you will feel so high that no street drug can compete and you will feel so low that you wish you had been hit by a Mack truck instead.

Christine F. Anderson

Mental Depression Quotes #838019
#46. Smiles are a funny thing
and laughter is hilarious.
I smile sometimes
when I am delirious.

Casey Renee Kiser

Mental Depression Quotes #847261
#47. Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

Stephanie S. Tolan

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#48. You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

Kristin Scott Thomas

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#49. No one wants to admit that they suffer from a mental illness, because of the stigma," I said. "Both of us suffer from major depression. He knows that I've been through a lot of the same things that he's going through now.

Patrick J. Kennedy

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#50. I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ...

Sylvia Plath

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#51. It's worth burning myself out like a match
so long as others receive the light and warmth I dispatch.

Shannon Perry

Mental Depression Quotes #1063228
#52. The words on the pages within this book are solely dedicated to victims of bullying, those that ever have or still do suffer from depression, mental illness, and the struggles that accompany it. You are brave. You are strong. You are smart. You are beautiful. You are worth it.

Kathryn Perez

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#53. I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.

Jennifer Holliday

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#54. I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, depend on just a few grams of salt. But treatment's the easy part. Without honesty, without a true family reckoning, that salt's next to worthless.

David Lovelace

Mental Depression Quotes #1110103
#55. I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded.

Sylvia Plath

Mental Depression Quotes #1120141
#56. You're surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don't notice me.

Kellie Elmore

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#57. You are a warrior in a dark forest, with no compass and are unable to tell who the actual enemy is, So you never feel safe ..

Anonymous

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#58. Watching me, judging me, smelling the crippling failure oozing from my skin, my desperation clawing and all-consuming panic drenching me as I gape in horror at the world and wonder why everyone is smiling and looking at me with secret knowledge of my aching shame.

Sarah Kane

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#59. Depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases.

William Styron

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#60. Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.

Lisa Eley

Mental Depression Quotes #1191194
#61. I'm broken, but I have to learn how to live. I feel stuck together with scotch tape, like after any breath everything could come apart. If it does, if it all comes undone, I think I'll fall down and never rise again.

Anna White

Mental Depression Quotes #1219128
#62. An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

Mental Depression Quotes #1226599
#63. I do not crave anyone that will fix me. Just someone who will hold my hand while I fix myself.

Unknown

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#64. Sleeping is much safer than the nightmare I'm living.
When I sleep I feel nothing and I do nothing and I see nothing and nothing matters and no one cares. There's no one to hurt or disappoint or notice when I'm low and I don't need to face anyone not anyone in the world or not even myself.

Shannon Mullen

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#65. But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing. So the moment after I realised I wasn't perfectly well was the moment I realised I was still very ill indeed.

Matt Haig

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#66. She can't worry. She can't 'fix.' She can't love.

Shannon Mullen

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#67. That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

Norah Vincent

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#68. I have a plan-to go mad.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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#69. What happens is my mind starts to go in circles, thinking and thinking, and then I can't sleep. And once a couple of days go by, if you haven't slept, you start to get sick. You can't eat. You start to cry. It just feeds on itself.

Mohsin Hamid

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#70. MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.

Matt Haig

Mental Depression Quotes #1319320
#71. Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they aren't there.

Shannon Mullen

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#72. Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Mental Depression Quotes #1339551
#73. The trick when it comes to dealing with depression is being able to imagine yourself out of it. When you can picture a happier life, you will be determined to work at the things that prevent it from happening.

Keysha Jade

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#74. But no matter how much evil I see, I think it's important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.

Robert Uttaro

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#75. God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.

Kay Redfield Jamison

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#76. I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

Lady Gaga

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#77. Moods should be heard but never danced to.

Hugh Prather

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#78. You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

Winona Ryder

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#79. Insanity is a very lonely and empty existence - it's painfully true. They may laugh and smile, and skip and dance, but behind all the faces there is hollowness like a bottomless pit. The living dead, depression is a terrible illness, so is psychosis, the mentally inflicted beyond cure.

Stephen Richards

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#80. Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

Amy Tan

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#81. Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.

Norah Vincent

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#82. Can you revive wilted tulips?

Shannon Mullen

Mental Depression Quotes #1562786
#83. It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

Kay Redfield Jamison

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#84. If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.

Diane Wood Middlebrook

Mental Depression Quotes #1570183
#85. The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.

Joanne Greenberg

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#86. People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

Heather Armstrong

Mental Depression Quotes #1608833
#87. You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever.
Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Carrie Fisher

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#88. Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

Michael Greger

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#89. It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

Osamu Dazai

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#90. Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

Shawn Amos

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#91. It's amazing the things that the heart and mind can endure. No one ever told me that growing up, so I often spent my childhood thinking something was wrong with me.

Yassin Hall

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#92. If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

Brene Brown

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#93. Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love.

Charles Manson

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#94. You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.

Kylie Minogue

Mental Depression Quotes #1732325
#95. I've struggled with many forms of mental illness since I was a kid, but clinical depression is a semiregular visitor and anxiety disorder is my long-term abusive boyfriend.

Jenny Lawson

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#96. Mental illness, depression, was indeed an illness with a physiological basis. It wasn't a sign of failure. I wasn't a failure.

Rachel Reiland

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#97. I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

Hermann Hesse

Mental Depression Quotes #1772248
#98. They're the perfect loving fam'ly, so adoring ...
And I love them ev'ry day of ev'ry week.
So my son's a little shit, my husband's boring,
And my daughter, though a genius, is a freak.

Brian Yorkey

Mental Depression Quotes #1806374
#99. It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.

Jennifer Niven

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#100. It felt like this was never going to end. The world wasn't going to stop crashing down until there was nothing left of me but dust.

Keary Taylor

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