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.
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for war. During the Depression very modest outlays for the unemployed seemed socially debilitating, economically unsound. Now expenditures many times greater for weapons and soldiers were perfectly safe. It's a difference that still persists.
If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.
Depression is always in the details.
It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start to feel like you’re going crazy.
A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's the matter?" "Nothing, Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it. " "Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose. "Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush.
I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.
Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.
With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
It's horrible, horrible, horrible. It took a year and a half until I found out that I had post-natal depression.
Keep passing the open windows.
A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.
As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.
If you have depression, you are dramatically more likely to be sick. Now to say you don't need to treat depression because it's not a medical reality - when in fact it clearly affects your interaction with the entire world around you - is just frankly reactionary.
Part of being sane is being a little bit crazy.