“Sabine says, Honesty is the only antidote for shame. She is trying to save me. But I am tired.”— Cynthia Cruz, bombmagazine.org
“When you help someone who is scared, depressed & withdrawn, be glad that it's not the other way around. Think how you would feel.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.”— Lady Bird Johnson, izquotes.com
“Depression was never a choice -- it is an obligation that I must always attend to.”— E. V.⠀ R O G I N A ❦, instagram.com
“Stop making depression an aesthetic. Attaching a "cool factor" to psychological trauma & pain is dangerous because it perpetuates the issue & diminishes the experiences of those who are suffering. Let's have discussions about mental health issues without glorifying them.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“Selfies are not all good. Aside from people accidentally hurting or killing themselves trying to impress others on the ‘gram, studies have found that interacting with “idealized images” of others puts people at higher risk for depression. A study by the University of Pittsburgh found that over a qua…”— Angela Waters, highsnobiety.com
“'Depression is a choice' = 'your pain is your fault' 'You can overcome this if you just try hard enough' = 'Your pain is making me uncomfortable. Please shut up.' If you are unburdened by depression, real true depression, count yourself lucky. Keep your quick fixes to yourself. This is the kind of b…”— Andy Richter, twitter.com
“I have been followed by an ever-present amorphous sadness for almost my entire life. I am 51 yrs old. It varies in strength from a casual unresolvable suspicion that I will never find the joy that others do in a sunset, to the feeling that being dead might a respite & a kindness. I’ve been on meds.…”— Andy Richter, twitter.com
“Did you know Nebraska has the highest level of depression and extra-marital activity? It's a sad state of affairs.”— KFR42, reddit.com
“One day he was a millionaire. The next day, with the Depression, not a penny in his pocket. He packs his five kids in the back of a van and goes to New York and begins selling cakes. That's what I call a Greek.”— Telly Savalas, m.imdb.com
“Gray clouds follow me I ignore my friends’ calls I answer only after a day passes It’s obvious they’ll ask ‘how do you feel?’ I force myself to smile Do I have to do this? It’s as if I’ve been assigned a sad role I didn’t do anything but why is it That it becomes depressing when I come? Do I have to…”— Heize, open.spotify.com
““I feel bad about my struggle, because it is nothing compared to other people’s struggles and yet it still hurts.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“Before you do something you will regret, think about all the great things that you can do in the future, people you will meet and places you travel to, the lives you will touch. I almost did it before and I'm so thankful that I didn't do it, because if I did, I wouldn't be living the life that I hav…”— Nadine Lustre, instagram.com
“They may ask why nature or God created such horrible conditions as autism, manic depression, and schizophrenia. However, if the genes that caused these conditions were eliminated there might be a terrible price to pay.”— Temple Grandin, en.wikiquote.org
“I was anxious and depressed ahead of my time. I didn't need 9/11 to realize that in life, anything can happen. I've been on a state of alert since high school. Code plaid.”— Garry Shandling, esquire.com
“And I live with the dead – my mother , my sister [Sophie], my grandfather, my father [who died in 1889, when Munch was in France].. .Every day is the same – my friends have stopped coming – their laughter disturbs me, tortures me.. ..my daily walk round the old castle becomes shorter and shorter, it…”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“That's what the majority of people in the world do, they walk among the ruins of their life. Things that didn't work out, relationships that went sour, jobs that disappeared. All they can think about is their ruins, and when you focus on that you can't build a new you.”— Richard Simmons, menshealth.com
“If anyone's depressed for any reason, whether a relationship has fallen apart or they're having money problems, wearing feathered wings and a tutu takes you into a whole other world. A whole new woooooorld, a world of bright and shining stars!”— Richard Simmons, menshealth.com