Top 31 Quotes About How Depression Feels

#1. Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

Andrew Solomon

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#2. I sit in front of the notebook and feel like it's just too late for me. And that this book isn't working, nothing's working, everything feels like it's made of spiders.

Jessica Abel

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#3. I have every luxury imaginable, I own acres of land, and have enough money to buy the moon were it for sale. Though people think I have everything, it sometimes feels like my possessions own me; towering over me and reducing me into a small bundle of insignificance.

J. Matthew Nespoli

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#4. We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

John Eldredge

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#5. Severe depression feels like being a wingless bird in a dark,closed box with no way out. Hopeless!!

Michelle Lawson

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#6. Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.

Victor Hugo

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#7. Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

William Deresiewicz

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#8. Everyone feels depressed, angry or frustrated at times; it's a crossroads not a dead end.

Sam Owen

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#9. Depression feels a bit like that, it creeps in on you and settles, until you think it'll never lift, but in time it always does. That's why it's so tragic if people don't reach out to anyone when they feel low, because if they do, the mist will usually lift in the end.

Sita Brahmachari

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#10. Sometimes it feels like we're all living in a Prozac nation. The United States of Depression.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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#11. Genius implies originality and independence.

Claudia Gray

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#12. Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")

William Beckford

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#13. In depression, your capacity to feel just flattens and disappears and what you feel is pain and a kind of pain that you can't describe to anybody. So it's an isolating pain, a completely isolating pain.

Kay Redfield Jamison

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#14. I don't want anybody to understand what my depression feels like because in order to understand it you have to have been there, and I don't want anybody else to go.

David Feherty

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#15. For instance man feels the sensation of joy and depression in the center called solar plexus; however, this does not mean that joy or depression is there, but that this center is sensitive to such experiences.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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#16. I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I'll burst like those notes, let out my last cries of pain, and then go silent forever. Or maybe I'll turn into a shadowy static that's barely there, if you just listen hard enough.

Jasmine Warga

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#17. The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.

Charles Stanley

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#18. It's a strange poverty of the English language, and indeed, of many other languages, that we use this same word, "depression" to describe how a kid feels when it rains on his birthday, and to describe how somebody feels the minute before they commit suicide.

Andrew Solomon

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#19. Even among familiar faces, people often feel invisible and desolate, like an island in cold waters or a shadow apart from the crowd. Be the reason another never feels alone.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#20. When they ask me why I jumped off the roof of my brother's apartment building, I will tell them it was because I wanted the sky to mourn me.

And because I wanted to know what it feels like to hit something so hard it shatters me into bits that they can never sew back together.

Kady Hunt

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#21. The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

William Styron

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#22. Everyday feels the same and yet I crave sameness.
Part of me wants to run away and be free.
I feel trapped in my life I've created to protect myself.

Tina J. Richardson

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#23. If you want your dream to come true, you must do a lot of work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#24. A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Jonathan Davis

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#25. Judy's friend that she has known the longest has just broken up with her boyfriend and is depressed. Judy likes her more now that she is depressed and feels unmotivated in life. Judy feels unmotivated in life.

Ellen Kennedy

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#26. 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

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#27. Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do.
But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#28. When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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#29. It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

Julia Cameron

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#30. I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s and '70s. My attitude resembles that of my parents, who were born in the '20s and lived through the Great Depression and World War II.

Terry Teachout

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

Kay Redfield Jamison

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