Quotes About Depressed People

#1. Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

Andrew Solomon

#2. The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.

John Keegan

#3. Depressed people tended to end things on special occasions and party goers drank too much and then got behind the wheels of vehicles. But Valentine's Day wasn't too bad as far as suicides and car wrecks were concerned.

Abbi Glines

#4. I've always been drawn to people with problems. Not just physical problems, but mental problems too. Like depressed people or killers, all that stuff.

Amy Sedaris

#5. If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.

Joyce Meyer

#6. Lately, a study has suggested that depressed people have a more accurate view of reality, though this accuracy is not worth a bean because it is depressing, and depressed people live shorter lives. Optimists and believers are happier and healthier in their unreal worlds.

Anna Funder

#7. Comics, a lot of them, are really depressed people, and I happen to be somebody that does have a lot of confidence. That's the odd thing about my stand-up. I am very confident. I always was.

Andrew Dice Clay

#8. Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.

Sue Monk Kidd

#9. Others see depressed people as weak, and all I want to tell them is they can never imagine the amount of strength it takes for us to do something as simple as getting out of bed in the mornings.

Kathryn Perez

#10. Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Mark Epstein

#11. There are many misconceptions about depression-mostly negative. Unfortunately, because depressed people think negatively about depression and its treatment, they don't get help, which allows the depression to worsen, which leads to more negative thinking, which produces a vicious cycle of suffering.

Peter McWilliams

#12. I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

Tao Lin

#13. The more depressed people with the growth mindset felt, the more they took action to confront their problems, the more they made sure to keep up with their schoolwork, and the more they kept up with their lives. The worse they felt, the more determined they became!

Carol S. Dweck

#14. It's weird for people who still have feelings to be around depressed people. They try to help you have feelings again so things can go back to normal, and it's frustrating for them when that doesn't happen.

Allie Brosh

#15. I've learned that the most depressed people always seem to be the happiest

Anonymous

#16. Depressed people don't end up lying in bed because they are undercommitted to goals. They end up lying in bed because they are overcommitted to goals that are failing.

Jonathan Rottenberg

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Kay Redfield Jamison

#22. 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

#23. In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#24. It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder.

Lynda Barry

#25. Seriously, people. You suck at partying."
"We're depressed," Simon explained.
"You're too young to be depressed, unless you have gonorrhea. That shit is a buzz kill.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#26. I really am planning on living to be 100. People ask, "Why are you so depressed?" I'm actually a very happy person.

Aoife O'Donovan

#27. In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

Edmund White

#28. It's rare to be depressed and be in prime health. Healthy people tend to be happy people.

Toni Sorenson

#29. The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough serotonin in their brain - we know that that's wrong.

Irving Kirsch

#30. The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got.

Tanya Tucker

#31. After 9/11, I was like many people in New York City and got a little depressed. I began to check myself into The Waldorf Astoria for room service, movies and just to chill. I wanted to contribute to the great city of Manhattan.

Kristin Chenoweth

#32. I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope.

Friedrich Hayek

#33. You ever wonder if it's really not more complicated than that?" I ask. "That maybe everyone else is right, and people like you and me just need to quit looking for stuff to be depressed about?" She looks up, and then back at her dirt, dismissing this stupidity without comment. When

Matthew Norman

#34. People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don't know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.

Dean Ornish

#35. I think people can have a panic attack where your heart is racing, you get shakes and jitters. But you can also feel disconnected. You know what I mean? I can feel depressed.

Vinny Guadagnino

#36. I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.

James Hamilton-Paterson

#37. The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

David Cameron

#38. People always mean well, but they don't understand that when you're seriously depressed, suicidal ideation can be the only thing that keeps you alive. Just knowing there's an out - even if it's bloody, even if it's permanent - makes the pain almost bearable for one more day.

Terri Cheney

#39. I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.

Marianne Williamson

#40. I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

Michael Moore

#41. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.

Cassandra Clare

#42. People around me like me the best when I'm depressed because I'm a bit more passive.

Halsey

#43. Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can say to a depressed person is, "Cheer up!"

Harold H. Bloomfield

#44. There was a week where I was depressed with the rain, and people were telling me to get a light box. But I live on the 14th floor of an apartment complex, and I see the Broadway Bridge and Mount Hood, and it keeps me such company. And like true Oregonians, I don't carry an umbrella anymore.

Reggie Lee

#45. Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law's flat.

Maggie Smith

#46. I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

Earl Hamner Jr.

#47. I get maudlin. Some people drink; some get depressed; some run around having sex with anyone with a pulse. Me, I get philosophical. It's healthier.

Rachel Caine

#48. Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

Susie Bright

#49. Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Mary J. Blige

#50. The modern societies are encouraging exclusiveness. Exclusiveness will naturally lead to depression. People are depressed like never before on this planet.

Sadhguru

#51. Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason.

Stephen Fry

#52. I am not depressed. I just miss people around me.. I am sure of this: missing people is good in a way.. It helps me realize how precious they are.. how they've changed my life..

Saravana Kumar Murugan

#53. Virtuous people always let go.
They don't prattle about pleasures and desires.
Touched by happiness and then by suffering,
The sage shows no sign of being elated or depressed.

Gautama Buddha

#54. I can't imagine why people come on cruise if they don't want to mix and be cheerful. One might as well stay at home and be depressed.

Andrew Garve

#55. I feel like I don't have the right to be depressed when so many people have it worse

Unknown

#56. I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very
depressed.

Thom Yorke

#57. Morrie went to his funeral. He came home depressed. "What a waste," he said. "All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.

Mitch Albom

#58. My first year in Japan was very tough, just like my first year in the minors. But at least there I had a lot of Dominican people and Latin people I can talk to. If you don't have anybody to talk to, you can get depressed. But if you find someone who talks your language, it's easier.

Alfonso Soriano

#59. They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.

Rose Byrne

#60. A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

Elliott Smith

#61. Almost everyone is overconfident
except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.

Joseph T. Hallinan

#62. People who suffer from depression have better memory than people who don't, because part of our ability to survive and not to be depressed is to forget a lot of stuff.

Anthony Greenwald

#63. Yes," Mom said. "People may want to kill themselves. But no one wants to be depressed, or in pain, or lonely, or hurt.

Will Schwalbe

#64. All I can say to people who hate their mothers for giving birth to them is "get the fuck out of your scaredy shells and kiss the world".

Jay Woodman

#65. I believe that if we had would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own.

David M. Shoup

#66. I think I've gotten a pretty fair shake in the music press over the years. The only think that kind of irks me is when people assume that I must be really depressed person because they find my songs to be sad.

Thalia Zedek

#67. The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.

Will Davis

#68. I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.

Debra Winger

#69. A certain song can mean the difference between life and death for someone who is depressed and suicidal. Music can inspire and give hope. It can show adulation and worship and praise love and people.

Katie Ashley

#70. Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.

David D. Burns

#71. Sometimes she missed people before they even left her, got depressed about a vacation being over before it started.

Jennifer Close

#72. I felt ignorant, self-deprived, incredibly isolated, deeply and profoundly lonely and missing people, absolutely starved for affection, physically weary from alcohol, very depressed about my physical appearance, my weak muscles. Hurt and angry and sad

Augusten Burroughs

#73. Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.

Marvin J. Ashton

#74. When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.

Bradford Cox

#75. When famous people are nice to me, it feels good, so I'm happy to hang out with them. It's better than being at home, depressed, reading 'The Hobbit.'

Moby

#76. We have made too much of one or two people, and we think that they can win or lose elections for us. Don't be depressed if one particular person transgresses. It doesn't lose an election unless the Party loses faith in itself.

Margaret Thatcher

#77. People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

Zola Jesus

#78. 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

#79. A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.

Jay Leno

#80. Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.

Alan Weisman

#81. Some people think they're depressed and they go to the doctor and want pills. And you just think: 'You hate where you live, you've lost your job, your boyfriend has dumped you, could all this be why you're depressed?'

Graham Norton

#82. I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.

Patch Adams

#83. With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

Miriam Toews

#84. People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

Kate Zambreno

#85. Most people try to keep what they're losing or become depressed about what they can't maintain, but the right attitude is to accept change and have faith in a bright new future, because you must be aware of the opportunities that any calamity brings.

Daniel Marques

#86. No matter what, people don't think of me for glamorous parts. I'll go to an audition or a meeting in a pretty dress, and they still think of me as depressed or embattled. Hopefully, that will change.

Viola Davis

#87. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty.

Lao-Tzu

#88. We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Erich Fromm

#89. Everything is fine, nobody is happy...

Anonymous

#90. If people could just understand how it actually felt to be depressed, obsessed, frightened, out of control, maybe they'd be more tolerant, more understanding.

Victoria Leatham

#91. You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#92. I've been depressed all day. I feel like such a fraud. People say how special and wonderful I am. I think,
"Can't they tell? "

- Nita, September 18, 1984

Sarah E. Olson

#93. The more I aimed to please other people, the more I hid who I really was. The more I hid who I was, the more depressed my soul became. It

K.L. Register

#94. I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.

Tom Hollander

#95. I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

Natalie Imbruglia

#96. Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#97. The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.

Jodie Foster

#98. Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#99. He avoided stepping on the plants - though he wasn't sure why he bothered. The crops hardly seemed worth the effort. Wan, with wilted brown leaves, the plants seemed as depressed as the people who tended them.

Brandon Sanderson

#100. I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

Libba Bray