Quotes by Depression I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis. Gustave Flaubert ambition dream depression We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful! Gustave Flaubert suicide depression beautiful I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things. Hanif Kureishi depression song baby All the same, my depression and self-hatred, my desire to mutilate myself with broken bottles, my numbness and crying fits, my inability to get out of bed for days and days, the feeling of the world moving in to crush me, went on and on. But I knew I wouldn't go mad, even if that release, that letting-go, was a freedom I desired. I was waiting for myself to heal. Hanif Kureishi crush letting-go depression In a nutshell: Medical research has shown that Hypericum is an effective treatment for depression-as successful as prescription anti-depressions in a majority of patients. Harold H. Bloomfield majority successful depression As powerful as the power of positive thoughts are, depression biologically interferes with the brain's ability to maintain a positive thought for any period of time. Like the farmer who casts his seed upon the rocks, all the positive thoughts in the world presented to the depressed mind will not bear fruit. Harold H. Bloomfield rocks powerful depression One of the most common outcomes of a depressive illness is a mistreated body. Now is the time to treat your body well. The more you learn to treat yourself well now, the less treatment you'll need down the road. Harold H. Bloomfield body depression needs You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness. Harold H. Bloomfield disease heart depression Overly positive, horrendously cheerful people can make a depressed person even more depressed. In fact, perhaps the least helpful thing one can say to a depressed person is, "Cheer up!" Harold H. Bloomfield depressed-person cheer depression One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best. Harry Emerson Fosdick teaching depression inspirational While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person. Harry Emerson Fosdick depressed-person depression needs The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis psychology optimism depression People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness. Heather Armstrong dog depression children It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer. Hector Berlioz heart depression running It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. Harry S. Truman depression inspirational funny Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. Helen Reddy wasting-time waste depression Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper. Henri Nouwen anger depression love There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau depression happiness life In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow heart depression believe I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does. Henry Rollins feel-good loneliness depression «7891011121314151617»