Quotes About Depressive Life

#1. It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no sense, you think, 'I hate this job.' Then ten minutes later you think, 'Well, now, maybe I'll try this or I'll try that.' You do it because you know there will be an 'a-ha!' day.

Bonnie Bassler

#2. When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

Mary Parker Follett

#3. DSM definitions do not include personal and contextual factors such as whether the depressive symptoms are an understandable response to loss, a terrible life situation, psychological conflict or personality factors.

Allen Frances

#4. There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.

Mitchell Reiss

#5. Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

Sergei Dovlatov

#6. [ ... ] Depressive Episodes.
[I]Episodes.[/i] Like depression is a sitcom with a fun punch line each time. Or a TV box set loaded with cliffhangers. The only cliffhanger in my life is "Will I ever get rid of this s***?" And believe me, it gets pretty monotonous.

Sophie Kinsella

#7. I'll project myself into several futures simultaneously," I should have said, "a minor tremor in my hand; I'll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

Ben Lerner

#8. I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#9. That's just a much more enjoyable and motivating experience for me, when I can see people who are just as obsessed with the idea as I am.

Jamie Bell

#10. I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.

Frank Sinatra

#11. There will always be a down but also always an up, your moods depends on wich of the two you pay the most attention to.

Laurins

#12. It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

Anthony Marais

#13. JACKSON: When I give my word I mean that sh*t and I have no respect for anyone who breaks their word so easily.

Jordan Silver

#14. I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.

Kenneth Oppel

#15. My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Kitty Kelley

#16. I ran out of the apartment in a rage. Mahmud followed me, and we walked home, not speaking. Shortly before we reached the door to the house, he grabbed hold of me. "You're my friend, even if you've hurt me," he said.
I embraced him and asked his forgiveness.

Rafik Schami

#17. With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up.

Shane Warne

#18. I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.

Jami Attenberg

#19. I don't think I was very happy, and the problem with being a thirteen-year-old depressive is that when the rest of life is so uproarious, which it invariably is, there is no suitable context for the gloom.

Nick Hornby

#20. The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

Bertrand Russell

#21. It's the only way I know how to deal with Conan's BMS." "His what?" "Bitchy man syndrome,

H.P. Mallory

#22. And I always feel so stupid sitting in therapy talking about my problems because, Jesus Christ, so what? I can't equate the amount of pain and misery and despair I have suffered and endured as a depressive with the events of my life, which just seem so common.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#23. Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

Steven G. Krantz