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Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
DOROTHY ROWE, Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison
Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from normal experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain ... it is entirely natural that the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion.
WILLIAM STYRON, Darkness Visible
During depression the world disappears ... because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?
KATE MILLETT, The Loony-Bin Trip
My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD, Either/Or
Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.
AARON T. BECK, Depression
Depression has been labelled the common cold of psychopathology. This comparison is unfortunate, for it conveys the impression of a frequent but mild complaint. In reality ... depression is not only the most frequent mental health problem, but is among the most serious.
PAUL GILBERT, Depression: The Evolution of Powerlessness
Depression is one of the few psychological disorders that can be said to be fatal. Of all the consequences, suicide is, of course, the starkest consequence of the individual's feelings of hopelessness and debility.
CONSTANCE HAMMEN, Depression
A.B. CURTISS, Depression Is a Choice
Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.
JUDITH PEACOCK, Depression
Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES, The Marriage Plot
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.
DANIEL HANDLER (as Lemony Snicket), The Bad Beginning
- When you're in a Slump,
- you're not in for much fun.
- Un-slumping yourself
- is not easily done.
DR. SEUSS, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
ALAN LIGHTMAN, Einstein's Dreams
I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
J. K. ROWLING, USA Today, Mar. 23, 2008
If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You may escape without a mauling.
R.W. SHEPHERD, Vogue magazine, July 1978
I inherited depression from my mother’s side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.
BUZZ ALDRIN, New York Times, Jun. 15, 2009
Something crucial about depression ... The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES, The Marriage Plot
A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.
JAY LENO, The Tonight Show, Sep. 26, 2011
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