4,044 Quotes About Depression

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.

It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.

I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else.

The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.