Quotes by Depression Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up. Ann-Marie MacDonald panic grief depression Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. Anne Sexton light depression thinking It's all a matter of history. Anne Sexton queens depression lying Every time I get happy Anne Sexton depression happiness dirty On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction. Anthony Loyd despair desire depression Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain, a leader of sober judgment might well have concluded that we were finished. Anthony Storr odds depression men There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. Antonin Artaud delirium-tremens depression ideas Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile? Aristotle depression philosophy art To perceive is to suffer. Aristotle education depression life There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. Aristotle creativity depression funny The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. Arnold Bennett inspirational-life worry depression Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life. Art Buchwald persons depression war The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes Art Linkletter depth depression jobs It baseball is an American institution and more lasting than some marriages, war, Supreme Court decisions and even major depressions Art Rust, Jr. baseball depression war The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis. Arthur Henderson political depression years Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. Arthur Schopenhauer world-suffering pain depression It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me. Ashleigh Brilliant humorous responsibility depression You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for. Ashly Lorenzana growing-up mom depression I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense. Audrey Niffenegger depression running love Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me. Banana Yoshimoto strong depression lying «1234567891011»