Top 36 Quotes About Writing And Depression
#1. You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.
Kurt Vonnegut
#2. There were times when depression, anxiety, whatever, would keep me from writing. I still get depressed and anxious, but I just don't let it stop me. I've just learned to move it to one side if I want to work.
David St. John
#3. Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.
Richard Yates
#4. An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read!
Maggie Reese
#5. My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.
Sarah Lancashire
#6. We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. I, I am the LORD, and besides me there is no savior.
Anonymous
#8. I think the biggest challenge I have faced is that I have struggled most of my life with often crippling depression which has sometimes if not keeping me off stage kept me from writing regularly and with any kind of confidence.
Gary Gulman
#9. Bells ringing with no sound
Laughter with no voice
Happiness lost without being found
Making love with no noise
T. Grassan
#10. Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.
Sylvia Plath
#11. I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write ...
Kay Redfield Jamison
#13. My mom always tells me that if I feel like punching someone, first I have to say something nice to them. Out loud. If I still feel like punching them, they probably deserve it.
Kasie West
#14. The wordlessness of depression is a galling experience. You can't phone your friends, writing an e-mail is beyond you, you can't put pen to paper. The disease is a crash course in meaninglessness, lack of structure, the collapse of form.
Gwyneth Lewis
#15. 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
#16. Girl next to me at the baggage counter said she wrote her way to liberation. How did you handle first person narrative, I asked her. And said she knew the hole of depression, had been there. But I am out now, I escaped, I told her. 'You will fall into it again,' she said. Already I was sliding.
Kate Millett
#17. When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
Jonathan Swift
#18. What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone.
T. Grassan
#19. I'm a hands-on dad. I love my kids more than anything. It's very important to me. I'd give myself a 10 out of 10 for being a dad.
Dominic Purcell
#20. If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.
Mikhail Lermontov
#22. She'd entered a city made entirely of leather and paper. Celaena put a hand against her heart.
Sarah J. Maas
#23. With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.
Corey Taylor
#24. And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia Plath to the point of depression.
Megan McCafferty
#25. There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!
Gerry Rafferty
#27. Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
James Russell Lowell
#28. Traveling down a road of self-destruction
With no room for any reconstruction
Jessica-Lynn Barbour
#29. I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.
Arzum Uzun
#30. I definitely have my Palestinian gene. I love to play host.
Bella Hadid
#31. I think I've lost my faith
and I can't stop writing
because I don't know how
much longer I can hold on.
Emma Forrest
#32. The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
Max Planck
#33. A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his search for light both metaphorical and real. Writing with a controlled lyrical passion, Marly Youmans has crafted the finest, and the truest period novel I've read in years.
Lucius Shepard
#34. I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.
Vanilla Ice
#35. I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.
Madeleine Thien
#36. I would go into periods of depression in my life, and I would feel so alone. I felt that there was no one who understood how I felt, either on TV or in music, and writing really helped me change what I thought and how I felt about myself.
Brie Larson
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