40 Quotes by Depression

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.