Quotes About Coming Out Of Depression

#1. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.

Thomas Wolfe

#2. 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

#3. The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

Rod Steiger

#4. No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.

Bill Bonner

#5. One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Calvin Coolidge

#6. Humor is rare in science fiction ... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.

John Scalzi

#7. Until the coming of another day of fear, they walked in silence with bowed heads.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. So things were coming together nicely for me to embark on a full-fledged depression. One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression.

Mindy Kaling

#9. Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

Henry Louis Gates

#10. Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.

Peter Senge

#11. We were one, once.
One continent
that floated alone
in a sea of blue.
Time and tide and
forces that exist
without the necessity
of our belief,
pulled us, into two, into many,

Tyler Knott Gregson

#12. You aren't better than your fellow midwife, and together in numbers you're stronger.

L.A. Casey

#13. I can only speak from my own experience, and I would say that the depression I experienced feels like a chemical change. When it came over me, when it comes over me, it feels like it's coming over me like a flu.

Sarah Silverman

#14. Because its hard to realize now that that was the end of the great depression, you know. All of a sudden all of this is in front of me and I'm solvent, you know. I'm making some money and I know where my next meal is coming from, and I have a new pair of shoes and that's it.

Robert McCloskey

#15. The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

Sylvia Plath

#16. The best treatment for stress, anxiety, and depression is to change your perception by knowing that all of this is coming from a fear induced illusion.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Not loving is a letting go.
Listen,
The terrain around here
Is
Far too
Dangerous
For
That.

Hafez

#18. When I was coming out of depression, I made one random video. It wasn't funny or anything, but just the idea that people I didn't know were watching it made me feel less alone than I'd felt in a long time.

Lilly Singh

#19. The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern ... American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

Julian Barnes

#20. Her whole life they have thought her a failure, yet at the first hint of hope, they move to follow her, as if it is what they wanted all along.
Perhaps it was.

Kendare Blake

#21. The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

Martin Scorsese

#22. The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

Giacomo Casanova

#23. Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.

Ron Kaufman

#24. Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

Ray Brown

#25. I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#26. Diversion is the absolute worst remedy for depression. When we ignore the things that haunt us or taunt us, not only do they keep coming back, but they're bigger and stronger each time they return. Stop shoving us depressives in that direction.

Northern Adams

#27. I don't feel the depression the people who are always looking back to the '50s, to 'Father Knows Best' feel. I can see the coming of another glorious era.

Bharati Mukherjee

#28. She had certainly learned about not having enough money, which is different from being poor.

Anna Quindlen

#29. The thing about those conditions [anxiety and depression] that sucks the worst is that you don't address the root cause, so you never see it coming. What's worse is when you don't even KNOW what the root cause is, you can never fix the problem. So that's what's really scary.

Matty Mullins

#30. I'm going inside of myself and never coming out.

Jennifer Elisabeth

#31. Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.

James Dale Davidson

#32. It's been a terrific life.

Ernie Harwell

#33. There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.

Garet Garrett

#34. I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on me it is accompanied by a feverish reaching out to my friends. After its over I wince and wither.

Robert Lowell

#35. If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.

Robin Hobb

#36. Reckless predictions of the second coming of Christ create an artificial excitement among believers followed by a corresponding depression. In addition, it hardens skeptics in their unbelief and provides new fodder for cynics to mock the Christian faith.

Doug Batchelor

#37. Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

Kurt Vonnegut