Depressed Quotes

• Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.

  

  Eric West
  • Phone
  • Depressed
  • My Mom

• You hear a lot of people, they turn 40 and it really bugs them and they get depressed or whatever. I don't know - I just don't feel that way. I feel 19 years old all the time. I mean, it's not a lie. I could easily say, God, I feel 70. Or maybe I seem like I'm 70 or 200 or something to other people, I don't know. My brain feels 19 all the time. And that's a good spot.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Lie
  • Spot

• I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Life
  • Depressed
  • Downer

• I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

  

  Alice Dunbar Nelson
  • Depressed
  • Discouraged
  • Disheartened

• I don't think there's a single person on this planet that doesn't have a day when they feel like they're off, like they're not doing a very good job of being them. We all relate to having highs and lows. Everyone gets depressed.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Planet
  • Lows
  • Good Job

• The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.

  

  Will Davis
  • People
  • Kind
  • Enough

• See, the thing about guys is that I didn't really care to be around them. I mean, guys really made me uncomfortable. I don't know why, not exactly. I just, I don't know, I just didn't belong. I think it embarrassed the hell out of me that I was a guy. And it really depressed me that there was the distinct possibility that I was going to grow up and be like one of those assholes.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Hell
  • Possibility
  • Embarrassed

• The Failure of Will theory is equally popular with people who are not depressed. Get out and take your mind off yourself, they say. You're too self-absorbed. This is just about the stupidest thing you can say to a depressed person, and it is said every day to depressed people all over this country. And if it isn't that, it's Shut up and take your Prozac.

  

  Chase Twichell
  • Theory
  • Get Out
  • Stupidest

• I'm not as depressed as I used to be. The Prozac's working!

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Working
  • Depressed
  • Used to

• Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

  

  Epictetus
  • Thinking
  • Depressed
  • Compels

• I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed.

  

  Eydie Gorme
  • Army
  • Traveling
  • Separated

• Several months ago, he went through some real hard times, ... He was depressed, angry, he wouldn't get out of bed.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Real
  • Angry
  • Month

• Sometimes it’s just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don’t move.

  

  Ryan Reynolds
  • Moving
  • Body
  • Depressed

• Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Energy
  • Pride
  • Dynamometer

• Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along."

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Happy
  • Couple
  • Cancer

• You have a choice everyday... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Happy
  • Morning
  • Choose

• When you're sad or depressed, you might as well get something done," Lydia always said. "Pretty soon, you're not sad or depressed, and darned if things aren't done.

  

  Cathy Lamb
  • Done
  • Sad
  • Get

• I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Small
  • Town
  • Main Street

• If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.

  

  Andrew VanWyngarden MGMT
  • Conscious
  • Depressed
  • Cynical

• I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

  

  Jules Feiffer
  • Anxiety
  • Normal
  • Depressed

• Every time I feel depressed or frustrated, I just have to drive on the highway during rush hours, then I feel very grateful I don't have to do this everyday.

  

  Ann Shin
  • Drive
  • Depressed
  • Rush Hours

• I hear from all different people, not just people like me, or lesbians. It be straight people, it be grown men, it be grown women, people that have been sick or depressed that say, 'Oh, you made me want to go do what I want to do for myself and chase my dreams.' That's my purpose.

  

  Young M.A
  • People
  • Different
  • Purpose

• I really am planning on living to be 100. People ask, "Why are you so depressed?" I'm actually a very happy person.

  

  Aoife O'Donovan
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Depressed

• I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...'

  

  Jack Roy
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Jump

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