Quotes About Extreme Depression

#1. Melancholy suicide. - This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;

Emile Durkheim

#2. The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.

Anthony Burgess

#3. But finally, once in an age, there is a blink. And in that blink, you can be. And in that blink, I can be.

Patrick Bryant

#4. In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

Alan Lightman

#5. To fall in the void as I fell: none of you knows what that means ... I went down into the void, to the most absolute bottom conceivable, and once there I saw that the extreme limit must have been much, much farther below, very remote, and I went on falling, to reach it.

Italo Calvino

#6. Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

Brian Tracy

#7. The Internet bubble circa 2000 is the most extreme in modern capitalism. In the 1930s, we had the worst depression in 600 years. Today is almost as extreme in the opposite way.

Charlie Munger

#8. Depression gave me extreme perspicacity; rather than skin, it was as if I had only thin gauze bandages to shield me from everything I saw.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#9. Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

Bella Pollen

#11. Scientists have demonstrated that dramatic, positive changes can occur in our lives as a direct result of facing an extreme challenge - whether it's coping with a serious illness, daring to quit smoking, or dealing with depression. Researchers call this 'post-traumatic growth.'

Jane McGonigal

#12. Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up.

Betsy Lerner

#13. Depression is the most extreme form of vanity.

Julie Burchill

#14. My only strength is finding something where most people would find nothing.

Mary Pratt

#15. Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

Dallas Willard

#16. Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self
to the mediating intellect
as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

William Styron

#17. Even though she looked the same, life had aged her, stolen her innocence, and replaced it with knowledge she'd never asked for.

Dinah Jefferies

#18. Even extreme grief may ultimately vent
itself in violence
but more generally takes the form of apathy

Joseph Conrad

#19. I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.

Rachel Bloom

#20. Our party supports decriminalisation of cannabis. It's not a priority for this election campaign but it has been a long-standing policy of ours.

Metiria Turei