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  • There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

    Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins
  • If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

  • Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

    Sad   Depression   Hurt  
  • When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

    "POP QUIZ - Q & A With Fiona Apple". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 7, 1997.
  • I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

  • One day, we will look back and wonder how on earth we used to believe that depression was a lifestyle choice, only to be debated and taken seriously when an A List film star took his life, and the world filled with people saying how shocked and saddened they were.

    Stars   Believe   Taken  
  • I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

    Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
  • People with depression have something very valuable to teach us... how to live when it doesn't ever feel good.

  • Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

    Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”
  • In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

    "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.
  • Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

  • People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

  • Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.

    Depression   Fun   Lying  
  • Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

    Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.1, Psychology Press
  • Hey-ho, it's raining inside: it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow and when it does, I shall take full advantage.

    Rain   Doe   Hey  
  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

    Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
  • A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

  • Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

    Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins
  • People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

  • I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

  • A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

    Twitter post from Feb 22, 2013
  • I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

    "Warts'n'all" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.
  • I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.

  • The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.

    "Geoff Boycott sparks controversy with remarks on Mike Yardy depression" by Andy Wilson, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.
  • Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

    President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.
  • Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

    "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.
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