4,044 Quotes About Depression

Depression/The assassin inside me

A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

I began this process by wondering what it would mean for me to lay Momma to rest. But I did the opposite of laying her to rest—I brought her stories back to life, making her more real to me and less of a stranger. I worked to remember her. I was carrying around her dead body with me before, and now I carry the parts that are alive.

My whole world depended on Momma's. But I'm trying to embrace the present, and I've learned to admire smallness. Some days, I go on car rides with my sisters, and we listen to bouncy music and sing along, off-key, and we laugh as we recall stories from childhood, and I feel free.

See the past memories as just information, not a hard reality that you have lived. Then they will become detachable like a Pen Drive. Everything around you will feel new. You will be like a Time traveller who has just checked in to this moment.

I think I’ll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that’s fine. I have to make my peace with that.

Caught in the center of a soundless fieldWhile hot inexplicable hours go byWhat trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed?You seem to ask.I make a sharp reply,Then clean my stick. I'm glad I can't explainJust in what jaws you were to suppurate:You may have thought things would come right againIf you could only keep quite still and wait.

I’m going inside of myself and never coming out.

I know loneliness very well; depressing thoughts run the show, that's the main aspect of loneliness.