Quotes About Depression From Books

#1. Casting me as King Arthur was quite bold of 'Spamalot's producers, although it has been historically proved Arthur was Asian, and that Sunday trading started with Asians in 11th-century Britain.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#2. I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

Andre Leon Talley

#3. It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

Cassandra Clare

#4. In state of deep depression, I stayed alone; my time was occupied with reading sacred books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

Lance Reddick

#6. It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

Russ Feingold

#7. Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

Chief Joseph

#8. Anxiety and depression, and the physical symptoms they cause, are merely distractions and smokescreens to "protect" you from dangers, which are usually, imaginary.

Charles F. Glassman

#9. Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates depression, sadness, or any kind of despondency. Yellow vibration foods are: pineapples, bananas, grapefruit, lemons and corn.

Tae Yun Kim

#10. Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.
Tessa: Well, they are, aren't they? Isn't there anything you love like that?

Cassandra Clare

#11. It ... whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by its bile and I ... I don't even know if I want to be saved.

Kellie Elmore

#12. Awake. Reach out. Press onward.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me."
As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.

Maggie Nelson

#14. 88. Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book all learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me." 89. As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see. 90.

Maggie Nelson

#15. Get up and make notes on the books that you have, reflect on these notes and order more books, get up again, revise the hypothesis, and figure out a new plan of action. Repeat, making sure to leave no cracks open through which the gray fog of depression can penetrate. I

Barbara Ehrenreich

#16. One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely.

Matt Haig

#17. I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

Gavin Rossdale

#18. Speaking of scents, if Mr. Cologne-laced Letters really wants to stalk me, he'd be wise to follow me here, maybe offer to buy me a new release. That would get him a lot more action than his current bi-polar approach.

Angela Graham

#19. Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.

Cassandra Clare

#20. Love makes intellectual pretzels of us all.

Sarah Bird

#21. It is not our external actions that attract others, but it is the actions of our imaginations, visualizations, and subconscious minds that attract others.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation

Sogyal Rinpoche

#23. Out of everything the depression stole from me ... I miss my books the most.

Frank Warren